Psalms 141:7

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Bible in Basic English

Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

Free Bible Version

Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces [SIM], their shattered bones will be scattered on the ground near other graves.

Unlocked Literal Bible

They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

Noah Webster Bible

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

World English Bible

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Context

Come Quickly to Me

⁶When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant. ⁷As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Summary

This verse is a prayer for protection against the snares set by the wicked. It acknowledges the need for God's intervention to avoid being ensnared by the traps of evildoers. The psalmist seeks divine assistance in overcoming the schemes and pitfalls laid out by those who oppose righteousness. It reflects a plea for God's guidance and deliverance from the deceitful tactics of the enemy, emphasizing the reliance on God's strength to navigate through spiritual warfare.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth,.... Into which they were not suffered to be put, but lay unburied; or from whence they were dug up, and lay scattered about; which is to be understood of such of David's friends as fell into the hands of Saul and his men, and were slain: perhaps it may refer to the fourscore and five priests, and the inhabitants of Nob, slain by the order of Saul, Sa1 22:18. Though the phrase may be only proverbial, and be expressive of the danger David and his men were in, and their sense of it, who looked upon themselves like dry bones, hopeless and helpless, and had the sentence of death in themselves, and were as it were at the mouth of the grave, on the brink of ruin; as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth: and the chips fly here and there, and are disregarded; such was their case: or as men cut and cleave the earth with the plough, and it is tore up by it, and falls on each side of it, so are we persecuted, afflicted, and distressed by our enemies, and have no mercy shown us; so the Targum, "as a man that cuts and cleaves with ploughshares in the earth, so our members are scattered at the grave's mouth.'' The Syriac and Arabic versions understand it of the ploughshare cutting the earth.