Psalm 18:5

New American Bible - revised edition

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Cross References

Psalm 86:13

Your mercy to me is great; you have rescued me from the depths of Sheol.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Psalm 116:3

I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

Psalm 69:16

Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the pit close its mouth over me.

Psalm 124:4

Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us;