Psalm 18:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ The cords of She’ol were all around me; The snares of death were before me.

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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 were around me, And the pains of She’ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 124:4

“Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our being;

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, O יהוה, for Your loving-commitment is good. According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.

Psalm 86:13

For Your loving-commitment is great toward me, And You have delivered my being From the depths of She’ol.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For even man does not know his time. Like fish taken in an evil net, and like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it comes down on them suddenly.

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.