Psalms 18:5
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 18 connects to 8 cross-references. A royal thanksgiving psalm attributed to David after God delivered him from Saul and his enemies. One of the longest psalms, it describes divine deliverance in theophanic imagery of earthquake, storm, and lightning, celebrates God's role in military victory, and …
Other Translations
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Cross References
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut …
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the …
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be …