Psalms 141:7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 53:5 : 5 They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
  • Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
  • Rev 11:8-9 : 8 Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 9 For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 Then the king said to Doeg,“You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep– all with the sword.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.

  • 11Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    75%

    14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • 16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

  • 25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • 1The LORD says,“When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.

  • 19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

  • 17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

  • 4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

  • 11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 17I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

  • 1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • 8Surely I am looking to you, O Sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

  • 5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

  • 6They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

  • 11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • 19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • 16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.

  • 3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

  • 14They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

  • 22Tell your daughters and neighbors,‘The LORD says,“The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • 17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

  • 9Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

  • 5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

  • 10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • 10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • 8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

  • 25ד(Dalet) I collapse in the dirt. Revive me with your word!

  • 5I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

  • 13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • 22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

  • 20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • 13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

  • 13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

  • 23Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the Pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

  • 19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

  • 1Micah Laments Judah’s Sin Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit, and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat, and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.

  • 7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • 5They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.

  • 3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

  • 2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

  • 19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!