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New King James Version

2 Samuel 22:6

The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hades;   Hell;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sheol;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Hearing;   Salvation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prevent;   Psalms, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Sheol;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Poetry;   Salvation, Saviour;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel first and second books of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Snare;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Prevent;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Sheol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The ropes of Sheol entangled me;the snares of death confronted me.
Hebrew Names Version
The cords of She'ol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
Lexham English Bible
The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
English Standard Version
the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
New Century Version
The ropes of death wrapped around me. The traps of death were before me.
New English Translation
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.
Amplified Bible
"The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
New American Standard Bible
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.
Legacy Standard Bible
The cords of Sheol surrounded me;The snares of death confronted me.
Contemporary English Version
Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.
Complete Jewish Bible
the ropes of Sh'ol were wrapped around me, the snares of death lay there before me.
Darby Translation
The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
Easy-to-Read Version
The ropes of the grave wrapped around me. Death set its trap right there in front of me.
George Lamsa Translation
The pangs of Sheol compassed me about; the snares of death lay ahead of me;
Good News Translation
The danger of death was around me, and the grave set its trap for me.
Literal Translation
the cords of Sheol are all around me, the snares of death confronted me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The paynes of hell came aboute me, and the snares of death had ouertaken me.
American Standard Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Bible in Basic English
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sorowes of hell compassed me about, the snares of death ouertoke me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.
King James Version (1611)
The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.
English Revised Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came upon me.
Berean Standard Bible
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The coordis of helle cumpassiden me; the snaris of deeth camen bifor me.
Young's Literal Translation
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.
Update Bible Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;
World English Bible
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
New Living Translation
The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.
New Life Bible
The cords of the grave were around me. The nets of death came against me.
New Revised Standard
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me,
Douay-Rheims Bible
The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
Revised Standard Version
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Contextual Overview

2 And he said: Psalms 18">[fn] "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; 3 The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence. 4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 5 "When the waves of death surrounded me, The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 6 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears. 8 "Then the earth shook and trembled;The foundations of heaven Psalms 18:7).">[fn] quaked and were shaken,Because He was angry. 9 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under His feet. 11 He rode upon a cherub, and flew;And He was seen Psalms 18:10); Targum reads He spoke with power.">[fn] upon the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sorrows: or, cords, Job 36:8, Psalms 18:5, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 140:5, Proverbs 5:22, Jonah 2:2, Acts 2:24

the snares: Proverbs 13:14, Proverbs 14:27

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:4 - sorrows

Cross-References

Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Matthew 8:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmitiesAnd bore our sicknesses." Isaiah 53:4 ">[fn]
John 19:17
Matthew 27:32-56; Mark 15:21-41; Luke 23:26-49">[xr] And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
1 Peter 2:24
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me. :-.


 
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