Psalms 18:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 88:15-17 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

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    5When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

    6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

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    3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

    4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

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    4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

  • Jonah 2:5-6
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    5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

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    4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

    5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

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    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

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    2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

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    13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

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    18The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

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    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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    6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

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    16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

    17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

    18They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

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    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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    1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

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    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

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    15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

    16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

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