Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
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.
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."
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 141:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection From Sin And Sinners
6 Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant. 7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. 8 But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, are mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.
Cross References
Psalm 53:5
There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king saith to Doeg, 'Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod,
Psalm 44:22
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Romans 8:36
(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
2 Corinthians 1:9
but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
Hebrews 11:37
they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,
Revelation 11:8-9
and their dead bodies are upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)