Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
In Context
4The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Cross References
Psalms 86:13For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Psalms 124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:2-20
David's Triumphs in God; Devout Confidence. 1 I will love thee, O Lord , my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will call upon the Lord , who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my… Read the whole commentary →