Psalms 116:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
  • Ps 88:6-7 : 6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. 7 Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And `with' all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
  • Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
  • Jonah 2:2-3 : 2 And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. 3 When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
  • Mark 14:33-36 : 33 and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy, 34 and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul -- to death; remain here, and watch.' 35 And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth, and was praying, that, if it be possible the hour may pass from him, 36 and he said, `Abba, Father; all things are possible to Thee; make this cup pass from me; but, not what I will, but what Thou.'
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,
  • Ps 18:4-6 : 4 Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid. 5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death. 6 In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day. 4 When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

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    4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

    5Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

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    5When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,

    6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

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    4And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

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    4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

    5Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

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    3For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

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    20See, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house `it is' as death.

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    16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

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    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

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    18Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

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    2Because He hath inclined His ear to me, And during my days I call.

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    2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

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    9Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

    10For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

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    2In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

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    3Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down `to' the pit.

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    3And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

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    74%

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    16I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

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    15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

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    6I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

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    6Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

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    8For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.

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