Psalms 18:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מְ֭הֻלָּל אֶקְרָ֣א יְהוָ֑ה וּמִן־אֹ֝יְבַ֗י אִוָּשֵֽׁעַ׃

Transliteration

mehulal eqra YHWH and from-oyebay iwashe'a.

Grammar Details

• *mehulal*: pual participle, masculine singular - praised
• *eqra*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will call
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *oyebay*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my enemies
• *iwashe'a*: nifal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be saved

Word Meanings

• *mehulal*: praised/worthy of praise/to be praised
• *eqra*: I will call/I will cry out to/I will invoke
• *iwashe'a*: I will be saved/I will be delivered/I will be rescued

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:3 : 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.
• Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. 25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
• 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
• Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 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.
• Ps 124:4 : 4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
• Isa 13:8 : 8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
• 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 2:2-7 : 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. 4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me. 5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple? 6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head. 7 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
• 2 Sam 22:5-6 : 5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear; 6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
• Ps 22:12-13 : 12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan. 13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
• Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
• Matt 26:47 : 47 And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.
• Matt 26:55 : 55 In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.
• Matt 26:38-39 : 38 Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here. 39 And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
• Acts 21:30 : 30 And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.