| Psalm 18:4 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | The cords of death encompassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | The ropes of death had become tangled around me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. |
| ASV: | The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. |
| BBE: | The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. |
| DBY: | The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. |
| ERV: | The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. |
| JPS: | The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me. |
| WBS: | The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. |
| WEB: | The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. |
| YLT: | Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid. |
| Psalm 18:4 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 69:2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
Psalm 116:3 The cords of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Psalm 124:3 Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was kindled against us;
Psalm 124:4 Then the waters would have engulfed us, The stream would have swept over our soul; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 18:4 {c} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
(c) He speaks of the dangers and malice of his enemies from which God had delivered him. |
| WES: | 18:4 Death - Dangerous and deadly troubles. Floods - Their multitude, and strength, and violent assaults, breaking in upon me like a flood. |
| MHC: | 18:1-19 The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking. |
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