Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Psalms 141:7 in other translations
| BSB | As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
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| WEB | “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” |
| ASV | As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
| YLT | As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. |
| DARBY | Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. |
| BBE | Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough. |
| Webster | Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. |
What does Psalms 141:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 141:5-10
We should be ready to welcome the rebuke of our heavenly Father, and also the reproof of our brethren. It shall not break my head, if it may but help to break my heart: we must show that we take it kindly. Those who slighted the word of God before, will be glad of it when in affliction, for that opens the ear to instruction. When the world is bitter, the word is sweet. Let us lift our prayer unto God. Let us entreat…
Psalms 141:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 141:7
- Psalms 53:5
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
- Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Revelation 11:8-9
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
- 1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
- 2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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Context
- Psalms 141:6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
- Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- Psalms 141:8
But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Psalms 141:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como quien hiende y rompe la tierra, son esparcidos nuestros huesos á la boca de la sepultura. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Nos os sont dispersés à la gueule du shéol, comme quand on coupe et qu’on fend du bois sur la terre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie einer die Erde schneidet und spaltet, so sind unsere Gebeine hingestreut am Rande des Scheols. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Intende ad deprecationem meam, quia humiliatus sum nimis. Libera me a persequentibus me, quia confortati sunt super me. |