Our bones are scattered, &c. So barbarously cruel were our enemies that they not only killed many of our friends, but left their carcasses unburied, by which means their flesh, and sinews, &c., were consumed, or torn in pieces by wild beasts, and their bones dispersed upon the face of the earth, our common grave. The words are thought to refer to Saul's barbarity and cruelty to David's friends, in the horrid massacre of Ahimelech and the priests, by the hand of Doeg; perpetrated in such a savage manner that he compares it to the chopping and cleaving of wood, as if he had said, “How unlike, how barbarous, has their treatment been of me! My best friends slaughtered in great numbers, at the command of Saul, (so some render לפי שׁאול, instead of, at the grave's mouth,) and hewn to pieces in his presence, as one would cut or chop a piece of wood:” see Peters.
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Psalms 141:7
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.