Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

New American Standard Bible

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
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 ropes of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

International Standard Version

Binding ropes from Sheol entangled me while lethal snares hindered me.

A Conservative Version

The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
of hell
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

the snares
מקשׁ מוקשׁ 
Mowqesh 
Usage: 27

of death
מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

קדם 
Qadam 
Usage: 26

Context Readings

The Victory Song Of David

5 When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me, 6 The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death. 7 In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I call, And He heareth from His temple my voice, And my cry is in His ears,

Cross References

Psalm 116:3

Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

Job 36:8

And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

Psalm 18:5

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Psalm 140:5

The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Proverbs 13:14

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

Jonah 2:2

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

Acts 2:24

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

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