Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
New American Standard Bible
The snares of death confronted me.
King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
Holman Bible
the snares of death confronted me.
International Standard Version
Binding ropes from Sheol entangled me while lethal snares hindered me.
American Standard Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Amplified
“The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
Bible in Basic English
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Darby Translation
The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
Julia Smith Translation
The pangs of hades surrounded me; The snares of death anticipated me;
King James 2000
The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me;
Lexham Expanded Bible
The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Modern King James verseion
The sorrows of hell hemmed me in. The snares of death went in front of me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.
NET Bible
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.
New Heart English Bible
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
The Emphasized Bible
the meshes of hades, had surrounded me, - the snares of death had confronted me,
Webster
The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;
World English Bible
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
Youngs Literal Translation
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.
Interlinear
Chebel
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
5 For the waves of death encompassed me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 6 The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me. 7 In my distress I called upon LORD. Yea, I called to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [came] into his ears.
Cross References
Psalm 116:3
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Job 36:8
And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
Psalm 18:5
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 13:14
The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Jonah 2:2
And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou heard my voice.
Acts 2:24
whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.