Psalms 18:5

(18:6) The bonds of hell encircled me: the snares of death seized on me.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

In Context

4(18:5) The bonds of death encompassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid.

6(18:7) [When] in my distress I called upon the Lord, and unto my God I cried: he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint came before him, even into his ears.

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Cross References

Psalms 86:13For thy kindness is great toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the grave of the lower world.

Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.

Psalms 124:4Then would the waters have overwhelmed us, the stream would have passed over our soul;

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 →

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