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Psalm 141:7
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KJ21
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
ASV
As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
AMP
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].
AMPC
The unburied bones [of slaughtered rulers] shall lie scattered at the mouth of Sheol, [as unregarded] as the lumps of soil behind the plowman when he breaks open the ground.
BRG
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
CSB
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, turning up rocks, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
CSBA
As when one ploughs and breaks up the soil, turning up rocks, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
CEB
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.
CJB
As when one plows and breaks the ground into clods, our bones are strewn at the mouth of Sh’ol.
CEV
and their bones lie scattered like crushed rocks on top of a grave.
DARBY
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
DRA
Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
ERV
Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed, so our bones will be scattered in the grave.
EASY
It will be like a farmer who ploughs his field, and breaks the earth into pieces. Just like that, they will break the bones of wicked people. They will throw their bones on the ground at the entrance to Sheol.
EHV
They will say, “As one splits and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
ESV
As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
ESVUK
As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
EXB
“·The ground [or The rock; L Like it] is plowed and broken up. In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the ·grave [L mouth of Sheol; C the grave or the underworld].”
GNV
Our bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.
GW
As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
GNT
Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
HCSB
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, turning up rocks, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
ICB
“The ground is plowed and broken up. In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave.”
ISV
Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.
JUB
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.
KJV
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
AKJV
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
LSB
As when one plows and splits open the earth, Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
LEB
As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
TLB
When their leaders are condemned, and their bones are strewn across the ground, then these men will finally listen to me and know that I am trying to help them.
MSG
Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at the door of my lips. Don’t let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong— don’t let them lure me with their sweet talk! May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don’t let sin anoint my head. I’m praying hard against their evil ways! Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music. Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
MEV
As when one plows to break up the land, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
NOG
As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
NABRE
Like the plowing and breaking up of the earth, our bones are strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
NASB
As when one plows and breaks open the earth, Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
NASB1995
As when one plows and breaks open the earth, Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
NCB
As the soil is shattered when the ground is plowed, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of the netherworld.
NCV
“The ground is plowed and broken up. In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave.”
NET
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
NIRV
They will say, “As clumps of dirt are left from plowing up the ground, so our bones will be scattered near an open grave.”
NIV
They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
NIVUK
They will say, ‘As one ploughs and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.’
NKJV
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, As when one plows and breaks up the earth.
NLV
Our bones have been spread around the mouth of the grave like the broken ground behind the plow.
NLT
Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
NRSVA
Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
NRSVACE
Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
NRSVCE
Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
NRSVUE
Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
OJB
Atzameinu (our bones) are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon ha’aretz.
RGT
Our bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, as he who hews or digs in the earth.
RSV
As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
RSVCE
As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
TLV
As when one plows and breaks open the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
VOICE
Just as when a farmer plows and breaks open the earth, leaving clumps of dirt scattered along the rows, our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave.
WEB
“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
WYC
As fatness is broken out on the earth; our bones be scattered nigh hell. (As wood chopped into pieces lieth on the ground; so their bones shall be scattered nigh to Sheol/close to the grave.)
YLT
As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
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