Psalms 18:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מְ֭הֻלָּל אֶקְרָ֣א יְהוָ֑ה וּמִן־אֹ֝יְבַ֗י אִוָּשֵֽׁעַ׃

Transliteration

mehulal eqra YHWH and from-oyebay iwashe'a.

Grammar Details

• *mehulal*: pual participle, masculine singular - praised
• *eqra*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will call
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *oyebay*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my enemies
• *iwashe'a*: nifal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be saved

Word Meanings

• *mehulal*: praised/worthy of praise/to be praised
• *eqra*: I will call/I will cry out to/I will invoke
• *iwashe'a*: I will be saved/I will be delivered/I will be rescued

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." 25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
• 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
• Matt 27:39-44 : 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" 44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
• Ps 124:4 : 4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
• Isa 13:8 : 8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.
• Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him. 4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
• Jonah 2:2-7 : 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. 3 For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. 7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
• 2 Sam 22:5-6 : 5 For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid: 6 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
• Ps 22:12-13 : 12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 13 They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.
• Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
• Matt 26:47 : 47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.
• Matt 26:55 : 55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
• Matt 26:38-39 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me." 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
• Acts 21:30 : 30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.