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A difficult, fragmented landscape of cliff and scattered earth conveys the passage's violent disorder without inventing a narrative.
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Psalms 141:6-7

As when someone plows and breaks up the ground

the lifting up of my hands as the evening offering · Psalms 141

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6When their judges are thrown down beside the cliff, they will hear my words, for they are pleasant.

7As when someone plows and breaks up the ground, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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