Psalms 31:13

"I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery."

Key Reflection

In Psalm 31:13, David expresses his deep sense of isolation and abandonment, comparing himself to both a forgotten dead man and broken pottery. This imagery conveys not just physical non-existence but also the profound emotional and social void he experiences, highlighting his desolate state among those who should care for him.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For I have heard the slander of many -The reproach; the false accusations; the unjust aspersions. We are here more definitely informed as to another of the sources of the trouble that came upon him. It was “slander.” He had already referred to “two” sources of trouble; onePsalms 31:11that he was “reproached” by his friends and neighbors, and that his society was shunned by them; a second, that he was “forgotten” by those who ought to have remembered him, and that they treated him as though he were dead,Psalms 31:12. The third is referred to now; to wit, that he was the subject of “slander,” or of false reports. What was the “nature” of those false charges we are not informed.

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