Psalms 18:5
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
In Context
4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Cross References
Psalms 86:13For Thy kindness [is] great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors — I pine away.
Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,
Acts 2:24whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to 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 →