Verse 12

I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:14 : 14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
  • Ps 88:4-5 : 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
  • Ps 2:9 : 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
  • Isa 38:11-12 : 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
  • Rom 9:21-22 : 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
  • Rev 2:27 : 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,