Psalm 18:5 {17:6}
Good News Translation
The danger of death was around me, and the grave set its trap for me.

Contemporary English Version
Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

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

The sorrows, or, cords

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Psalm 88:3-8,15-17 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

Acts 2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it.

snares

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
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.6In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.…
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 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 116:3
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

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

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.

Additional Translations
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.

The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me.

The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

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