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

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

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

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

  • 4 I 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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    5 I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

    6 The waters engulfed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4 From 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.

    5 My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

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

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

    3 He said, 'I called to the LORD in my distress, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave, I cried out, and You heard my voice.'

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

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

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

  • 3 For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Ps 18:16-18
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    16 The 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.

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

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

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

    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

    7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

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

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

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

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

  • 12 LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; may Your love and truth always protect me.

  • 3 O LORD, my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

  • Ps 88:15-16
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    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.

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

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    54 Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.'

    55 I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.

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    14 My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

  • 19 They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

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  • 15 Rescue me from the mud, and do not let me sink. Deliver me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.

  • 9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me and from the snares of those who do evil.

  • 9 Protect me from the wicked who attack me, from my life’s enemies who surround me.

  • 10 I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

  • 16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

  • 17 For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."

  • 25 For the thing I dread comes upon me, and what I fear befalls me.

  • 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.