Psalm 141:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Psalm 141:7 Cross References

Romans 8:36

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 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 rejected them.

Psalm 44:22

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Hebrews 11:37

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, evil entreated

2 Corinthians 1:9

yea, we ourselves have had the answer of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: