Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 88:15-17 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.