Psalm 18:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me: The snares of death came on 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Psalm 18:5 Cross References

Psalm 116:3

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

Psalm 124:4

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

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

Psalm 86:13

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

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.

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.