the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Psalms 18:5
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The ropes of Sheol entangled me;the snares of death confronted me.
The cords of She'ol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
The ropes of death wrapped around me. The traps of death were before me.
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.
The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
"For the cords of death surrounded me, the floods of B'liya‘al terrified me,
The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
The ropes of the grave wrapped around me. Death set its trap right there in front of me.
The travail of Sheol has taken hold of me: the snares of death preceded me.
The danger of death was around me, and the grave set its trap for me.
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
Yet in my trouble I called vpo the LORDE, & coplayned vnto my God.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.
The sorrowes of hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me.
The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me.
The sorewis of deth cumpassiden me; and the strondis of wickidnesse disturbliden me.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.
The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.
The ropes of the grave were all around me. The traps of death were set for me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,
(17-6) The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
Contextual Overview
(For the music leader. A psalm by David, the Lord 's servant. David sang this to the Lord after the Lord had rescued him from his enemies, but especially from Saul.)
I love you, Lord God, and you make me strong. 2 You are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector, the rock where I am safe, my shield, my powerful weapon, and my place of shelter. 3 I praise you, Lord ! I prayed, and you rescued me from my enemies. 4 Death had wrapped its ropes around me, and I was almost swallowed by its flooding waters. 5 Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path. 6 I was in terrible trouble when I called out to you, but from your temple you heard me and answered my prayer. 7 The earth shook and shivered, and the mountains trembled down to their roots. You were angry 8 and breathed out smoke. Scorching heat and fiery flames spewed from your mouth. 9 You opened the heavens like curtains, and you came down with storm clouds under your feet. 10 You rode on the backs of flying creatures and swooped down with the wind as wings.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The sorrows: or, cords, Psalms 86:13, Psalms 88:3-8, Psalms 88:15-17, Acts 2:24
snares: Ecclesiastes 9:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - greatly 2 Samuel 22:6 - sorrows Job 36:8 - if Psalms 32:7 - compass Psalms 55:4 - terrors Psalms 119:143 - Trouble Proverbs 13:14 - to Proverbs 14:27 - to Jeremiah 49:22 - the heart of the Lamentations 3:55 - General Jonah 2:2 - out Mark 14:32 - while
Cross-References
I have two daughters who have never been married. I'll bring them out, and you can do what you want with them. But don't harm these men. They are guests in my home."
"No!" Jacob said. "Please accept these gifts as a sign of your friendship for me. When you welcomed me and I saw your face, it was like seeing the face of God.
And wait here until I bring you an offering." "All right, I'll wait," the Lord answered.
"Please," Manoah said, "stay here with us for just a little while, and we'll fix a young goat for you to eat."
When everyone got up on the fourth day, the Levite started getting ready to go home. But his father-in-law said, "Don't leave until you have a bite to eat. You'll need strength for your journey."
wine to cheer us up, olive oil for our skin, and grain for our health.
The mighty Lord All-Powerful is going to take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything you need— your bread and water,
Give us our food for today.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sorrows of hell compassed me about,.... Or "the cords of the grave" s, under the power of which he was detained for awhile; the allusion may be to the manner of burying among the Jews, who wound up their dead bodies in linen clothes; so that they were as persons bound hand and foot; and thus were they laid in the grave; see John 11:44; and so was Christ, till he was raised from the dead, when he showed himself to have the keys of hell and death, and to be no more under their power, or be held by them;
the snares of death prevented me; or "met" or "got before me" t the sense is, he was taken in them: this phrase designs the insidious ways and methods which the enemies of Christ took to ensnare him, and take away his life, and in which they succeeded; see Matthew 26:4.
s ×××× ×©××× "funes sepulchri", Musculus, Gejerus. t ק×××× × "praeoccupaverunt me", V. L. "anteverterunt me", Vatablus; "occurrerunt", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sorrows of hell - Margin, âcords.â The word used here is the same which occurs in the previous verse, and which is there rendered âsorrows.â It is correctly translated here, as in that verse, âsorrows,â though the parallelism would seem to favor the interpretation in the margin - cords. If it means âsorrows,â the idea is, that such sufferings encompassed him, or seized upon him, as we associate in idea with the descent to the under-world, or the going down to the dead. If it means âcords, or bands,â then the idea is, that he was seized with pain as if with cords thrown around him, and that were dragging him down to the abodes of the dead. Luther, DeWette, Prof. Alexander, Hengstenberg, and others render the word, in each of these places, âbands.â On the word here rendered âhell,â ש×××× she'oÌl, see the notes at Isaiah 14:9. It means here the âunder-world, the regions of the dead.â It is a description of one who was overcome with the dread of death.
The snares of death - The word âsnaresâ refers to the gins, toils, nets, which are used in taking wild beasts, by suddenly throwing cords around them, and binding them fast. The idea here is, that âDeathâ had thus thrown around him its toils or snares, and had bound him fast.
Prevented me - The word used here in Hebrew, as our word âpreventâ did originally, means to âanticipate, to go before.â The idea here is that those snares had, as it were, suddenly rushed upon him, or seized him. They came before him in his goings, and bound him fast.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:5. The sorrows of hell — ×××× ×©××× chebley sheol, the cables or cords of the grave. Is not this a reference to the cords or ropes with which they lowered the corpse into the grave? or the bandages by which the dead were swathed? He was as good as dead.
The snares of death prevented me. — I was just on the point of dropping into the pit which they had digged for me. In short, I was all but a dead man; and nothing less than the immediate interference of God could have saved my life.
