Psalm 116:3 {114:3}
Good News Translation
The danger of death was all around me; the horrors of the grave closed in on me; I was filled with fear and anxiety.

New Revised Standard Version
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Contemporary English Version
Death attacked from all sides, and I was captured by its painful chains. But when I was really hurting,

New American Bible
I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

sorrows

Psalm 18:4-6 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me. . . .

Psalm 88:6,7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. . . .

Jonah 2:2,3 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Mark 14:33-36 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

gat hold upon me.

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 38:6 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Isaiah 53:3,4 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Context
The LORD Has Heard My Voice
2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. 3The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:4And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.…
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

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

Psalm 18:5
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 55:4
My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

Psalm 88:3
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Jonah 2:6
The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

Psalm 116:2
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