2 Samuel 22:6
The ropes of Hell have encompassed me. The snares of death have intercepted me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the pangs of death have encircled me. The torrents of Belial have terrified me.
Cross References
Job 36:8And, if they are in captivity, or are bound with the chains of poverty,
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, so as to turn aside from the ruin of death.
Acts 2:24And he whom God has raised up has broken the sorrows of Hell, for certainly it was impossible for him to be held by it.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →