Psalm 18:5

Modern English Version

The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

Cross References

Psalm 86:13

For great is Your mercy toward me; You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Acts 2:24

whom God raised up by loosening the pull of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pangs of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 69:16

Hear me, O  Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the abundance of Your tender mercies.

Psalm 124:4

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