Psalm 18:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The sorrows of hell compassed me about: The snares of death prevented me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The cords of Sheol (the place of the dead) surrounded me; the snares of death confronted and came upon me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

Common English Bible

⁵ The cords of the grave surrounded me; death’s traps held me tight.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Psalm 18:5 Cross References

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Acts 2:24

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

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; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Psalm 116:3

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 69:16

Hear me, O Lord; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalm 124:4

then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: