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Psalms 141:7
“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
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Psalms 141 · Read in context
LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
141:3Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
141:5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
141:6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
141:7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
141:8For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
141:10Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
