Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
In Context
4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Cross References
Psalms 86:13For your loving kindness is great towards me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Psalms 124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should 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 →