I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
- BSB I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- NKJV I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
- NASB I am forgotten like a dead person, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
- NLT I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 88:4–5I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
- Ps 2:9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
- Isa 30:14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
- Rom 9:21–22Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
- Ps 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
- Rev 2:27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
- Isa 38:11–12I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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