Psalms 141:7
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As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.