For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. And they have not set God before their eyes.
Psalm 141:7 - Catholic Public Domain Version Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. Common English Bible Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. English Standard Version 2016 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. And they have not set God before their eyes.
For it is as it has been written: "For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter."
But we had within ourselves the response to death, so that we would not have faith in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
They were stoned; they were cut; they were tempted. With the slaughter of the sword, they were killed. They wandered about in sheepskin and in goatskin, in dire need, in anguish afflicted.