^12 (A)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a ^[a]broken vessel.

¹⁴ And ^(A)He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
^[a]A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”

⁸³ For ^(A)I have become like a wineskin in smoke,
Yet I do not forget Your statutes.

⁴ I am counted with those who ^(A)go^[a] down to the pit;
^(B)I am like a man who has no strength,
^5 [b]Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

^9 (A)You shall ^[a]break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”

¹¹ I said,
“I shall not see ^[a]Yah,
The Lord ^(A)in the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more ^[b]among the inhabitants of ^[c]the world.
^12 (B)My life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.