Psalms 141:7

“Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, etc.] 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 such of David’s friends as fell into the hands of Saul and his men, and were slain: perhaps it may refer to the fourscore and five priests, and the inhabitants of Nob, slain by the order of Saul, (<092218>1 Samuel 22:18,19). Though the phrase may be only proverbial, and be expressive of the danger David and his men were in, and their sense of it, who looked upon themselves like dry bones, hopeless and helpless, and had the sentence of death in themselves, and were as it were at the mouth of…”

“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 to be hopeless: as hopeless as it would be for dry bones scattered when they were buried to rise up and attack an enemy. The reference is to the condition of David and his followers as pursued by a mighty foe. His hope was not in his own forces, but in the power and interposition of God Psalms 141:8. As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth - Like chips, blocks, splinters, that have no strength; as when these lie scattered around - a fit emblem of our feeble and scattered forces.…”

“Our bones - Our case is almost as hopeless as of those who are dead, and whose bones are scattered in several places. Next: Psalms Chapter 142”

“bones: Psa 44:22; Sa1 22:18, Sa1 22:19; Rom 8:36; Co2 1:9; Heb 11:37; Rev 11:8, Rev 11:9 Psalms 141:8”