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Posted by Psalms on Saturday, 23 January 2016
Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
141:7. David’s case seemed hopeless: the cause of God in Israel was as a dead thing.
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth. David himself was like one of these dried bones, and the rest of the godly were in much the same condition.
As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. They were like wood divided and thrown apart. Leaving out the word wood, which is supplied by the translators, the figure relates to cleaving upon the earth, which probably means plowing, but may signify any other form of chopping and splitting, such as felling a forest, tearing up bushes, or otherwise causing confusion and division. How often have good people thought thus of the cause of God! Wherever they have looked, death, division, and destruction have stared them in the face. Scattered at the grave’s mouth! We have seen churches in such a state, and have been heart-broken. What a mercy that there is always a place above the earth to which we can look! There lives One who will give a resurrection to his cause, and a reunion to his divided people.
Excerpt from:
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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