Psalms 18:5

WEB

⁵The cords of Sheol^[+] were around me. The snares of death came on me.

KJV

⁵The sorrows^[+] of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

BSB

⁵The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

FBV

⁵The grave wound its ropes around me; death set snares for me.

Extra References

Psalms 86:13

¹³For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Acts 2:24

²⁴whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. ¹⁶Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Psalms 88:3-8

³For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.⁴^[+] I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, ⁵set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. ⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. ⁷Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. ⁸You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

¹²For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish 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 on them.

Psalms 116:3

³The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol^[+] a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.