The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow.
then the waters would have flowed over us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
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; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.