Psalms 141:7

In 11 translations

BSB

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

KJV

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

WEB

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

LSV

As one tilling and ripping up in the land, || Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

YLT

As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

DBY

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

DRC140:7

As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

GNV

Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.

JPS

As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.

LXXE140:7

As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כְּמ֤וֹ פֹלֵ֣חַ וּבֹקֵ֣עַ בָּאָ֑רֶץ נִפְזְר֥וּ עֲ֝צָמֵ֗ינוּ לְפִ֣י שְׁאֽוֹל׃

LXX-Br140:7

Ὡσεὶ πάχος γῆς διεῤῥάγη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, διεσκορπίσθη τὰ ὀστᾶ ἡμῶν παρὰ τὸν ᾅδην.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
• Psalms 53:5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
• Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Revelation 11:8–9Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified. For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their…
• 1 Samuel 22:18–19So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He also put to the…
• 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
• Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

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