Psalms 116:3
Cords of death have surrounded me, || And straits of Sheol have found me, || I find distress and sorrow.
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2Because He has inclined His ear to me, || And during my days I call.
4And in the Name of YHWH I call: Ah, now, O YHWH, deliver my soul,
Cross References
Psalms 18:4Cords of death have surrounded me, || And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, my bones have become old, || Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 88:6You have put me in the lowest pit, || In dark places, in depths.
Jonah 2:2And he says: “I called, because of my distress, to YHWH, || And He answers me, || From the belly of Sheol I have cried, || You have heard my voice.
Luke 22:44and having been in agony, He was more earnestly praying, and His sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling on the ground.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:2-10
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped… Read the whole commentary →