2 Samuel 22:6

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me,

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 King James Version
The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted 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.

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, - Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer - mine; ³ My God, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, - My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My Saviour! from violence, thou didst save me. ⁴ As one worthy to be praised, called I on Yahweh, - And, from my foes, was I saved. ⁵ When the breakers of death had encompassed me, - the torrents of perdition, made me afraid, - ⁶ the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me, ⁷ In my distress, called I on Yahweh, Yea, unto my God, did I call, - and he hearkened, out of his temple, unto my voice, and, my cry for help, was in his ears! ⁸ Then did the earth shake and quake, the foundations of the heavens, were deeply moved, - yea they did shake, because he was angry, ⁹ There went up a smoke in his nostrils, and, a fire out of his mouth, devoured, - live coals, were kindled from it: ¹⁰ Then he stretched out the heavens, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet; ¹¹ Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, - and was seen on 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
We all, like sheep, had gone astray, Every man - to his way, had we burned, - And Yahweh! caused to light upon him The guilt of, us all!

Matthew 8:17
that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, - Himself, our weaknesses, took, and, diseases, bare.

John 19:17
And, bearing for himself the cross, he went forth unto the so-called Skull-place, which is named, in Hebrew, Golgotha;

1 Peter 2:24
Who, our sins, himself, bare up, in his body, unto the tree, in order that we, from our sins getting away, in righteousness, might live, - by whose stripes, ye have been healed;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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