Psalm 141:7 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁷ About the grave's devouring mouth our bones are scatter'd round, As wood which men do cut and cleave lies scatter'd on the ground.

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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

Yea, for thy sake we're kill'd all day, counted as slaughter-sheep.

Psalm 53:5

Ev'n there they were afraid, and stood with trembling, all dismay'd, Whereas there was no cause at all why they should be afraid: For God his bones that thee besieg'd hath scatter'd all abroad; Thou hast confounded them, for they despised are of God.