Psalms 18:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.”
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BSBPD
“The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 18:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 124:4then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
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