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12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: …
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? …
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In the Ps. 31:1-8 David had appealed to God’s righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble , and need thy mercy.” The remem…
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