Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 116 connects to 10 cross-references. A thanksgiving psalm from one who was near death and cried out to God and was saved. The psalmist cannot repay God's goodness but will lift the cup of salvation and pay vows before the assembly. Precious in the Lord's …
Other Translations
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Cross References
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it …
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: …
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly …
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what …
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very …
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood …
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.