Psalms 18:5
What does Psalms 18:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 18:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
Context
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.
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