Psalm 18:5

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Acts 2:24

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know 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 falls suddenly upon them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, O LORD, for thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou to me,

Psalm 124:4

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,