Psalms 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
- Ps 88:6-7 : 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
- Isa 53:3-4 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him. 4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
- Jonah 2:2-3 : 2 Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said, 3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
- Mark 14:33-36 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him. 34 And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
- Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.
- Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
- Ps 18:4-6 : 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me. 6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
- Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
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4The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
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5For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;
6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
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3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
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13Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
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20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
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1<A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
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2Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
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3My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
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6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
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