The King James Version Bible

Psalms 18:5

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

Cross References

  1. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  2. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  3. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
  4. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  5. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  6. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.