Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

New American Standard Bible

The cords of death encompassed me,
And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.

King James Version

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Holman Bible

The ropes of death were wrapped around me;
the torrents of destruction terrified me.

International Standard Version

The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

A Conservative Version

The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

Darby Translation

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

Julia Smith Translation

The pains of death surrounded me, and the torrents of Belial made me afraid.

King James 2000

The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

Modern King James verseion

The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. {TYNDALE: For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.}

NET Bible

The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

New Heart English Bible

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The Emphasized Bible

The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;

Webster

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

World English Bible

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Youngs Literal Translation

Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

References

Prayers for Psalm 18:4

Context Readings

Praise For Deliverance

3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.


Cross References

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

2 Samuel 22:5-6

For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

Psalm 22:12-13

Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Psalm 124:4

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them ; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces'shall be faces of flame.

Isaiah 53:3-4

He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

Jonah 2:2-7

And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

Matthew 26:38-39

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

Matthew 26:47

And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priest and elders of the people.

Matthew 26:55

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

Matthew 27:24-25

So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it .

Matthew 27:39-44

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

Mark 14:33-34

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.

Acts 21:30

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut.

2 Corinthians 1:9

yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

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