2 Samuel 22:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The ropes of Sheol entangled me;the snares of death confronted me.

Hebrew Names Version
The cords of She'ol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

Lexham English Bible
The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

English Standard Version
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

New Century Version
The ropes of death wrapped around me. The traps of death were before me.

New English Translation
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

Amplified Bible
"The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

New American Standard Bible
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.

Legacy Standard Bible
The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.

Contemporary English Version
Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.

Complete Jewish Bible
the ropes of Sh'ol were wrapped around me, the snares of death lay there before me.

Darby Translation
The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;

Easy-to-Read Version
The ropes of the grave wrapped around me. Death set its trap right there in front of me.

George Lamsa Translation
The pangs of Sheol compassed me about; the snares of death lay ahead of me;

Good News Translation
The danger of death was around me, and the grave set its trap for me.

Literal Translation
the cords of Sheol are all around me, the snares of death confronted me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The paynes of hell came aboute me, and the snares of death had ouertaken me.

American Standard Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

Bible in Basic English
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sorowes of hell compassed me about, the snares of death ouertoke me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.

King James Version (1611)
The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.

English Revised Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came upon me.

Berean Standard Bible
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The coordis of helle cumpassiden me; the snaris of deeth camen bifor me.

Young's Literal Translation
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

Update Bible Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;

World English Bible
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

New King James Version
The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

New Living Translation
The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.

New Life Bible
The cords of the grave were around me. The nets of death came against me.

New Revised Standard
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

Revised Standard Version
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Contextual Overview

² God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God—the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout; My mountaintop refuge, he saves me from ruthless men. ⁴ I sing to God the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved. ⁵The waves of death crashed over me, devil waters rushed over me. Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit. ⁷ A hostile world! I called to God , to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard me call; my cry brought me right into his presence— a private audience! ⁸Earth wobbled and lurched; the very heavens shook like leaves, Quaked like aspen leaves because of his rage. His nostrils flared, billowing smoke; his mouth spit fire. Tongues of fire darted in and out; he lowered the sky. He stepped down; under his feet an abyss opened up. He rode a winged creature, swift on wind-wings. He wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black rain-cloud darkness. But his cloud-brightness burst through, a grand comet of fireworks. Then God thundered out of heaven; the High God gave a great shout. God shot his arrows—pandemonium! He hurled his lightnings—a rout! The secret sources of ocean were exposed, the hidden depths of earth lay uncovered The moment God roared in protest, let loose his hurricane anger. ¹⁷But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved! ²¹ God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start. Indeed, I've kept alert to God 's ways; I haven't taken God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. ²⁶You stick by people who stick with you, you're straight with people who're straight with you, You're good to good people, you shrewdly work around the bad ones. You take the side of the down-and-out, but the stuck-up you take down a peg. ²⁹Suddenly, God , your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences. What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. ³²Is there any god like God ? Are we not at bedrock? Is not this the God who armed me well, then aimed me in the right direction? Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain. He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow! You protect me with salvation-armor; you touch me and I feel ten feet tall. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men. I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them. You armed me well for this fight; you smashed the upstarts. You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters. They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer. I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter. You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they submitted. They gave up; they came trembling from their hideouts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sorrows: or, cords, Job 36:8, Psalms 18:5, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 140:5, Proverbs 5:22, Jonah 2:2, Acts 2:24

the snares: Proverbs 13:14, Proverbs 14:27

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:4 - sorrows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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