Psalms 141:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 53:5 : 5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
  • Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
  • Rev 11:8-9 : 8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • Ps 44:22 : 22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

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  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    75%

    14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

    22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

  • 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

  • 17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

  • 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • 8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • 6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

  • 11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

  • 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

  • 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

  • 22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

  • 9 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

  • 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • 10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

  • 25 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

  • 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

  • 13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

  • 20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

  • 23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

  • 7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • 5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

  • 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

  • 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.