Further, David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all of them were embittered, each man for his sons and daughters. But David felt strengthened and encouraged in the Lord his God.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have freed me when I was hemmed in and relieved me when I was in distress;
Be gracious to me and hear [and respond to] my prayer.

The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him from all his troubles.

O You who hear prayer,
To You all mankind comes.

In my trouble I cried to the Lord,
And He answered me.

I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord;
I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.

And being in agony [deeply distressed and anguished; almost to the point of death], He prayed more intently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down on the ground.

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

By reason of mine

Do not regard your maidservant as a wicked and worthless woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great concern and [bitter] provocation.”

Out

The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

From the end of the earth I call to You, when my heart is overwhelmed and weak;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I [a rock that is too high to reach without Your help].

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Hell

For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

“Sheol below is excited about you to meet you when you come [you tyrant of Babylon];
It stirs up the spirits of the dead [to greet you], all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones [in astonishment at your fall].

for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

‘For You will not forsake me and abandon my soul to Hades (the realm of the dead),
Nor let Your Holy One undergo decay [after death].

And thou

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him from all his troubles.

O You who hear prayer,
To You all mankind comes.

General references

In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,
For You will answer me.

I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.