Psalms 18:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For Thy kindness `is' great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 88:3-8 : 3 For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol. 4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength. 5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. 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. 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.
  • Ps 88:15-17 : 15 I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away. 16 Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off, 17 They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

Similar Verses (AI)

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    97%

    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.

  • Ps 116:3-4
    2 verses
    92%

    3Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

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

  • Ps 18:4
    88%

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

  • Jonah 2:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

    6To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

  • Ps 55:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Ps 88:3
    77%

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

  • Jonah 2:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    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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  • Ps 9:13
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    13Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

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    75%

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

  • Ps 140:5
    75%

    5The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

  • Ps 143:3
    75%

    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.

  • Ps 18:6
    74%

    6In 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 18:16-18
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    74%

    16He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.

    17He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

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    3 verses
    74%

    5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

    7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

  • Lam 1:20
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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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    2 verses
    74%

    1To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.

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  • Ps 142:3
    74%

    3When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way `in' which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

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    74%

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

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    12For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

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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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    73%

    15I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

    16Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off,

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    73%

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

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    2 verses
    73%

    54Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

    55I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.

  • Job 22:10
    73%

    10Therefore round about thee `are' snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.

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    73%

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    2 verses
    73%

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    73%

    19They are before me in a day of my calamity, And Jehovah is my support,

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    73%

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    73%

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    72%

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