Psalm 141:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The unburied bones [of slaughtered rulers] shall lie scattered at the mouth of Sheol, [as unregarded] as the lumps of soil behind the plowman when he breaks open the ground. [II Cor. 1:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Common English Bible

⁷ Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Psalm 141:7 Cross References

Psalm 44:22

Because of you we are being killed all day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 53:5

There they shall be in great terror, in terror such as has not been. For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two; they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—