Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 141:7
Our bones — Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places.
Our bones — Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places.
OUR BONES ARE SCATTERED AT THE GRAVE’S MOUTH - We are, indeed, now like bones scattered in the places of graves; we seem to be weak, feeble, disorganized. We are in a condition which of itself seems t...
PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...
CXLI. FOR LOYALTY TO GOD AND HIS SAINTS. Psalms 141:1 f. The Psalmist begs Yahweh to hear his prayer. He utters this prayer in his house, and in true prophetic spirit hopes that it will be as acceptab...
OUR BONES. Septuagint (Vatican B, and Alex.. by second hand), Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiop. read "their bones" THE GRAVE'S. Hebrew Sheol's. App-35. Note the word "bones" in this connection. CUTTETH. sl...
It is not difficult to translate these verses, but it seems impossible to give any satisfactory explanation of them in their present context. They may be rendered:...
As when one splitteth and cleaveth (wood) upon the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. Precipitation from a rock was a common method of execution in ancient times (cp. 2 Chronicles...
WHEN THEIR JUDGES— This first verse contains an account of David's humanity towards Saul, in giving him his life at two several times, when he had it in his power to destroy him as he pleased, says Mr...
PSALMS 141 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Temptation to Conspiracy Shunned. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 141:1-3, Prayer for Guarded Speech. Stanza II., Psalms 141:4-5, Danger from Proffered Hospitalities. St
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. OUR BONES ARE SCATTERED AT THE GRAVE'S MOUTH, AS WHEN ONE CUTTETH AND CLEAVETH (WOOD) UPON THE E...
141:7 earth. (f-19) Or 'cleaveth the earth.'...
An evening prayer in time of trouble. The Psalmist prays that he may be strengthened to resist temptation, and so escape the fate of evil men....
Also obscure; perhaps, 'Their bones will be scattered at the mouth of Sheol as when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth,' referring to the judges....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ AN EVENING *PRAYER PSALMS 141 Jesus said, "What will a man have if he buys the whole world but loses his own soul?" ...
OUR BONES. — The literal rendering of this verse is _As when one cutteth and cleaveth in the earth our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheôl._ The reading “our bones” necessarily makes this an abr...
כְּמֹ֤ו פֹלֵ֣חַ וּ בֹקֵ֣עַ בָּ † אָ֑רֶץ...
Psalms 141:1 PART of this psalm is hopelessly obscure, and the connection is difficult throughout. It is a prayer of a harassed soul, tempted to slacken its hold on God, and therefore betaking itself...
HUMILITY Psalms 141:1-10 This is an evening psalm. Acceptable prayer is as the smoke of incense rising in the still air, Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4. Each day we should ask to be delivered f...
In this song the influence of the external troubles upon the inner life of the singer is revealed. Throughout it breathes the spirit of fear lest the soul should be seduced from the attitude of whole-...
Our bones are scattered at the (h) grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. (h) Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in (2 Corinth...
_Low. Symmachus, "languid.) St. Jerome, "infirm." (Haydock)_...
In the first of these verses we have more speakers than one; but the Psalmist, turning from the calamities there described, finds comfort in looking to the Lord; and takes sure confidence in the perfe...
7._As one who breaketh_, _etc_. Here David complains that his enemies were not satisfied with inflicting upon him one death — death of a common description — but must first mangle him, and those assoc...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
OUR BONES ARE SCATTERED AT THE GRAVE'S MOUTH,.... Into which they were not suffered to be put, but lay unburied; or from whence they were dug up, and lay scattered about; which is to be understood of...
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. Ver. 7. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth] _i.e._ I and my company are in a dying cond...
_Our bones are scattered_, &c. So barbarously cruel were our enemies that they not only killed many of our friends, but left their carcasses unburied, by which means their flesh, and sinews, &c., were...
EVENING PSALM IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS. A psalm of David, a prayer for deliverance from afflictions and from the enemies who cause them....
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth, or, ''as one draws furrows and loosens the soil," that is, although the enemies should apparently su...
5-10 We should be ready to welcome the rebuke of our heavenly Father, and also the reproof of our brethren. It shall not break my head, if it may but help to break my heart: we must show that we take...
OUR BONES; my bones, and the bones of my friends and followers. Our skin and flesh is in a manner consumed, and there is nothing left of us but a company of dead and dry belles; whereby he intimates t...
Psalms 141:7 bones H6106 scattered H6340 (H8738) mouth H6310 grave H7585 plows H6398 (H8802) breaks H1234 ...
Psalms 141:7 The text presents three contrasts, which we shall do well to consider. I. Our union with past generations and the intense reality of our present life. Observe the use of the word "our:...
Psalms 141:1. _LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee._ You see how a child of God prays when he is in trouble. David says, «I cry unto thee,» and the...
CONTENTS: Prayer for God's favorable acceptance and powerful assistance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Though the snares be placed by the enemy with ever so much subtlety, God can, and will, s...
This psalm, like the last, is generally supposed to have been composed by David during his persecution by Saul, probably when he fled to Achish. The late Rev. Mr. Peters, a Cornish clergyman, has favo...
_Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth._ THE SCATTERED BONES AND THE UPLIFTED LOOK The text presents in a very vivid way an aspect of death most familiar, but most striking, and it also expres...
_Lord, I cry unto Thee._ AN INVOCATION FOR THE TRULY DESIRABLE IN HUMAN LIFE: - I. Divine attention to human aspirations (verses 1, 2). 1. For immediate attention. 2. For favourable attention. II...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:1. This is an individual lament, a prayer that God will protect the faithful person against all insincerity and compromise....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:6 As the esv footnote explains, the Hebrew here is difficult. The main point is that eventually God will bring his judgment upon the JUDGES. Then the faithful person will be v...
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm presents,” says Perowne, “some peculiar difficulties of Interpretation, which, however, are due neither to the words employed nor to the grammatical construction, but to the e...
EXPOSITION ALMOST wholly a psalm of supplication. David is again in danger, and needs a prompt deliverance (Psalms 141:1). This time the danger seems to be that he may fall away, and be absorbed into...
Psa 140:1-13, another psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. T...
1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 22:19; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Hebrews 11:37;...