Psalms 18:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 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.) 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
  • Ps 88:15-17 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. 17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
  • 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.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

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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.

  • Ps 116:3-4
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    3The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

    4Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

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    4The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

  • Jonah 2:5-6
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    5And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

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  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

    5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

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    3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

  • Jonah 2:2-3
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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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    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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    18The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

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    5The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

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    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

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    6In 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.

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    16He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

    17He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

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    5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

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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<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

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    6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

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    15I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

    16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

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    54Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

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