Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Like plowing and furrowing the earth, 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. And they shall hear my words, for they are sweet. 7 Like plowing and furrowing the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 8 For my eyes are to thee, O lord LORD. In thee do I take refuge. Leave not my soul destitute.
Cross References
Psalm 53:5
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against thee. Thou have put them to shame because God has rejected them.
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.
Psalm 44:22
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:36
Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter.
2 Corinthians 1:9
But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented
Revelation 11:8-9
And their corpses are in the thoroughfare of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.