Cords of death entangled me. Torrents of Belial overwhelmed me.
For great is Your lovingkindness toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.
But God raised Him up, releasing Him from the pains of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by it.
Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.
The ropes of death entangled me, and the torments of Sheol found me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Do not let floodwaters sweep over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the Pit shut its mouth over me.
Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over our soul,