Verse 5

The cords of death surrounded me, and the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is Your steadfast love toward me; You have delivered my life from the depths of Sheol.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. 4 For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 5 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength. 6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care. 7 You have placed me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 8 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Ps 88:15-17 : 15 Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me? 16 I have been afflicted and close to death since my youth; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. 17 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 But God raised Him from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.