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Psalms 18:5

Psalms chapter 18 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

v.5This passage

v.6In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Psalms 116:3

    The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Acts 2:24

    whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

  • Psalms 88:3

    For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

  • Psalms 88:15

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

  • Psalms 86:13

    For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.