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Psalms 141:7
Psalms 141:7 is verse 7 of Psalms chapter 141, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
King James Version
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.”
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Psalms 141:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
1 Samuel 22:18So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
Revelation 11:8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 11:9For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.