New Revised Standard Version
For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;

Contemporary English Version
Death, like ocean waves, surrounded me, and I was almost swallowed by its flooding waters.

New American Bible
The breakers of death surged round about me, the menacing floods terrified me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

waves.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

the floods

Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 69:14,15 Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. . . .

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Isaiah 59:19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

Jeremiah 46:7,8 Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers? . . .

Revelation 12:15,16 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. . . .

Revelation 17:1,15 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . .

ungodly men [heb] Belial