Psalms 18:5
The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
In Context
4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Cross References
Psalms 86:13For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;
Acts 2:24Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
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 →