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Psalms 18:5
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The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.
The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The ropes of death wrapped around me. The traps of death were before me.
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
The sorewis of deth cumpassiden me; and the strondis of wickidnesse disturbliden me.
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
"For the cords of death surrounded me, the floods of B'liya‘al terrified me,
The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
The ropes of the grave wrapped around me. Death set its trap right there in front of me.
The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.
The sorrowes of hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
The ropes of the grave were all around me. The traps of death were set for me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.
The travail of Sheol has taken hold of me: the snares of death preceded me.
The danger of death was around me, and the grave set its trap for me.
The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,
(17-6) The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me.
The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
The ropes of Sheol entangled me;the snares of death confronted me.
The cords of She'ol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
Yet in my trouble I called vpo the LORDE, & coplayned vnto my God.
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The sorrows: or, cords, Psalms 86:13, Psalms 88:3-8, Psalms 88:15-17, Acts 2:24
snares: Ecclesiastes 9:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - greatly 2 Samuel 22:6 - sorrows Job 36:8 - if Psalms 32:7 - compass Psalms 55:4 - terrors Psalms 119:143 - Trouble Proverbs 13:14 - to Proverbs 14:27 - to Jeremiah 49:22 - the heart of the Lamentations 3:55 - General Jonah 2:2 - out Mark 14:32 - while
Cross-References
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord , I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sorrows of hell compassed me about,.... Or "the cords of the grave" s, under the power of which he was detained for awhile; the allusion may be to the manner of burying among the Jews, who wound up their dead bodies in linen clothes; so that they were as persons bound hand and foot; and thus were they laid in the grave; see John 11:44; and so was Christ, till he was raised from the dead, when he showed himself to have the keys of hell and death, and to be no more under their power, or be held by them;
the snares of death prevented me; or "met" or "got before me" t the sense is, he was taken in them: this phrase designs the insidious ways and methods which the enemies of Christ took to ensnare him, and take away his life, and in which they succeeded; see Matthew 26:4.
s חבלי שאול "funes sepulchri", Musculus, Gejerus. t קדמוני "praeoccupaverunt me", V. L. "anteverterunt me", Vatablus; "occurrerunt", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sorrows of hell - Margin, “cords.” The word used here is the same which occurs in the previous verse, and which is there rendered “sorrows.” It is correctly translated here, as in that verse, “sorrows,” though the parallelism would seem to favor the interpretation in the margin - cords. If it means “sorrows,” the idea is, that such sufferings encompassed him, or seized upon him, as we associate in idea with the descent to the under-world, or the going down to the dead. If it means “cords, or bands,” then the idea is, that he was seized with pain as if with cords thrown around him, and that were dragging him down to the abodes of the dead. Luther, DeWette, Prof. Alexander, Hengstenberg, and others render the word, in each of these places, “bands.” On the word here rendered “hell,” שׁאול she'ôl, see the notes at Isaiah 14:9. It means here the “under-world, the regions of the dead.” It is a description of one who was overcome with the dread of death.
The snares of death - The word “snares” refers to the gins, toils, nets, which are used in taking wild beasts, by suddenly throwing cords around them, and binding them fast. The idea here is, that “Death” had thus thrown around him its toils or snares, and had bound him fast.
Prevented me - The word used here in Hebrew, as our word “prevent” did originally, means to “anticipate, to go before.” The idea here is that those snares had, as it were, suddenly rushed upon him, or seized him. They came before him in his goings, and bound him fast.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:5. The sorrows of hell — חבלי שאול chebley sheol, the cables or cords of the grave. Is not this a reference to the cords or ropes with which they lowered the corpse into the grave? or the bandages by which the dead were swathed? He was as good as dead.
The snares of death prevented me. — I was just on the point of dropping into the pit which they had digged for me. In short, I was all but a dead man; and nothing less than the immediate interference of God could have saved my life.
