Psalms 18:5

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

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  • 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.

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    5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

    6The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

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    3The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

    4Then I called on the name of the Lord: 'O Lord, please save my life!'

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    4I called upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies.

  • Jonah 2:5-6
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    5I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

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    4From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.

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    3Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

  • Jonah 2:2-3
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    2Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish.

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    13For he who avenges blood remembers them; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

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    18The Lord has disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

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    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

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    6The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the traps of death confronted me.

  • Ps 18:16-18
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    16The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of breath from Your nostrils.

    17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

    18He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

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    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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    20See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in anguish within, my heart is overturned because I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

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    1For the choir director: A song to be sung to the tune of 'Lilies.' A psalm of David.

    2Save me, God, because the waters have come up to my neck.

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    3I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.

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    6Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

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