◄ Psalm 18:4 {17:5} ►
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Good News Translation
The danger of death was all around me; the waves of destruction rolled over me.

New Revised Standard Version
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me;

Contemporary English Version
Death had wrapped its ropes around me, and I was almost swallowed by its flooding waters.

New American Bible
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

sorrows

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

2 Samuel 22:5,6 For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid. . . .

Isaiah 13:8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

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. . . .

Matthew 26:38,39 Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me. . . .

Mark 14:33,34 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

floods

Psalm 22:12,13,16 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. . . .

Jonah 2:2-7 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Matthew 26:47,55 As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people. . . .

Matthew 27:24,25,39-44 And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it. . . .

Acts 21:30 And he whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran together. And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.

ungodly men [Heb.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
…3Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies. 4The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.5The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.…
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.

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

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Psalm 124:3
Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Psalm 124:4
Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.

Jeremiah 51:55
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

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

Psalm 18:3
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