Psalm 18:5 Parallel Translations
NASB: The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: The ropes of the grave had surrounded me. The clutches of death had confronted me.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
ASV: The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
BBE: The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
DBY: The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
ERV: The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me.
JPS: The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.
WBS: The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.
WEB: The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
YLT: Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
Psalm 18:5 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 116:3 The cords of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 18:5 Sorrows - Which brought me to the brink of the grave. Death - Had almost taken hold of me, before I was aware.
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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