Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
New American Standard Bible
Our
King James Version
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Holman Bible
turning up rocks,
so our
at the mouth of Sheol.
International Standard Version
Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.
A Conservative Version
Like plowing and furrowing the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
American Standard Version
As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Amplified
As when the one plows and breaks open the ground [and the soil scatters behind him],
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol [by the injustices of the wicked].
Darby Translation
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
As he cutting up and cleaving asunder in the earth, our bones were scattered at the mouth of hades.
King James 2000
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.
Modern King James verseion
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.
NET Bible
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
New Heart English Bible
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
The Emphasized Bible
As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades!
Webster
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 141:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection From Sin And Sinners
6 [When] their judges are thrown down [the] sides of a cliff, then they will understand that my words were pleasant. 7 As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 8 But my eyes [are] toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.
Cross References
Psalm 53:5
There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.
1 Samuel 22:18-19
Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore [the] linen ephod.
Psalm 44:22
Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Romans 8:36
Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."
2 Corinthians 1:9
But [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated,
Revelation 11:8-9
And their dead bodies [will lie] in the street of the great city which is called symbolically Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.