The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 141:7-8
The victory of faith. In these verses two contrasted scenes are set before us. We are shown— I. AN UTTERLY HOPELESS CONDITION . 1. The psalmist seems to be contemplating the mournful state of the people of God , of whom he rejoices to be one. He represents them as being not merely a defeated company, but large numbers of them destroyed, and their bodies in long furrow-like heaps left in dishonored and horrible neglect to be the prey of the vultures and the wolves.... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth . The calamity is not confined to the "judges." The bones of the people generally lie scattered at hews mouth—unburied, i . e ; but ready to go down to Hades. As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth ; rather, as when one cleaves and breaks up the earth . "The bones of God's servants were strewn as thickly ever the ground as stones over a newly ploughed piece of soil, so that the Holy Land looked as if it had become an... read more