Psalms 18:5

World English Bible (2000)

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
  • 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 has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. 17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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    5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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    3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

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    4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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    5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

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    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

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    2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

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    18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

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    6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

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    16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

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    5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

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    1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

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

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