141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, 1
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors 2
who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’
You made your back like the ground,
and like the street for those who walked over you.”
1 tn Heb “like splitting and breaking open in the earth.” The meaning of the statement and the point of the comparison are not entirely clear. Perhaps the psalmist is suggesting that he and other godly individuals are as good as dead; their bones are scattered about like dirt that is dug up and tossed aside.
2 tn That is, to make them drink it.