Psalms 18:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

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  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave. 4 I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths. 7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to 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 your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. 17 They came around me daily like water; they have encircled me together.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    97%

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

    6The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me;

  • Ps 116:3-4
    2 verses
    92%

    3The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.

    4Then I called upon the name of the LORD: O LORD, I beg You, deliver my soul.

  • Ps 18:4
    88%

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

  • Jonah 2:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5The waters surrounded me, even to my soul: the depths closed in around me, the seaweed was wrapped around my head.

    6I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • Ps 55:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

    5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Ps 88:3
    77%

    3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave.

  • Jonah 2:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.

    3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the floods surrounded me, all Your waves and billows passed over me.

  • Ps 9:13
    75%

    13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • Ps 118:18
    75%

    18The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

  • Ps 140:5
    75%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    75%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Ps 18:6
    74%

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

  • Ps 18:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

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

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

    18They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.

  • Lam 3:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 1:20
    74%

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

  • Ps 69:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul.

    2I sink in deep mire, where there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • Ps 142:3
    74%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 88:6
    74%

    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • Ps 40:12
    74%

    12For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold of me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

  • Ps 30:3
    74%

    3O LORD, you have brought my soul up from the grave; you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 88:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

    16Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Lam 3:54-55
    2 verses
    73%

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

    55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the lowest pit.

  • Job 22:10
    73%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ps 57:6
    73%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Ps 130:1
    73%

    1Out of the depths I have cried to you, O LORD.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • 2 Sam 22:19
    73%

    19They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.

  • Ps 120:1
    73%

    1In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.

  • Ps 69:15
    73%

    15Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

  • Ps 141:9
    73%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 17:9
    72%

    9From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • Isa 38:10
    72%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • Ps 22:16
    72%

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 38:17
    72%

    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • Job 3:25
    72%

    25For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

  • Lam 3:9
    72%

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.