2 Samuel 22:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ “The cords of the grave were all around me; The snares of death were before me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The sorrows of hell compassed me about; The snares of death prevented me;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The cords of Sheol were entangling me; I encountered the snares of death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

Common English Bible

⁶ The cords of the grave surrounded me; death’s traps held me tight.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The ropes of Hell have encompassed me. The snares of death have intercepted me.

2 Samuel 22:6 Cross References

Job 36:8

And if they are bound in shackles, caught in the cords of affliction,

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death were around me, And the pains of the grave came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 140:5

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of the grave were all around me; The snares of death were before me.

Proverbs 13:14

The Torah of the wise is a fountain of life, Turning one away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of יהוה  is a fountain of life, To turn away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 5:22

The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Jonah 2:2

And he said, “I called to יהוה  because of my distress, and He answered me. From the stomach of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.

Luke 21:20

“And when you see Yerushalayim surrounded by armies, then know that its laying waste is near.

Acts 2:24

“Him Elohim raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was impossible that He could be held in its grip.