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Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs,
    but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.[a]
Our bones[b] have been scattered at the mouth of the grave,[c]
    just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.[d]

But my eyes are on you, my Lord God.
    I take refuge in you; don’t let me die!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 141:6 Heb uncertain
  2. Psalm 141:7 LXX manuscripts, Syr their bones; DSS (11QPsa) my bones
  3. Psalm 141:7 Heb Sheol
  4. Psalm 141:7 Heb uncertain

Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,(A)
    and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
They will say, “As one plows(B) and breaks up the earth,(C)
    so our bones have been scattered at the mouth(D) of the grave.”

But my eyes are fixed(E) on you, Sovereign Lord;
    in you I take refuge(F)—do not give me over to death.

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