Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Holman Bible
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.
American Standard Version
The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness 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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:4
Prayers for Psalm 18:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
4 The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid; 5 The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,
Names
Cross References
Psalm 116:3
The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;
2 Samuel 22:5-6
When the breakers of death had encompassed me, - the torrents of perdition, made me afraid, -
Psalm 22:12-13
Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;
Psalm 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me, - An assembly of evil doers, have encircled me, They have pierced my hands and my feet,
Psalm 124:4
Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;
Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be in distress - Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs, - Everyone, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces!
Isaiah 53:3-4
Despised was he, and forsaken of men, Man of pains and familiar with sickness, - Yea, like one from whom the face is hidden, Despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jonah 2:2-7
and said - I cried - out of my distress - unto Yahweh, and he answered me, - Out of the belly of hades, called I, Thou didst hear my voice.
Matthew 26:38-39
Then, saith he unto them: Encompassed with grief, is my soul, unto death: Abide ye here, and be watching with me.
Matthew 26:47
And, while, yet, he was speaking, lo! Judas, one of the twelve, came, and, with him, a large multitude, with swords and clubs, from the High-priests and Elders of the people.
Matthew 26:55
In that hour, said Jesus unto the multitudes: As against a robber, came ye forth, with swords and clubs, to arrest me? Daily in the temple, used I to sit teaching, and ye secured me not;
Matthew 27:24-25
And Pilate, seeing, that, nothing, it availed, but rather, a tumult, was arising, taking water, washed his hands of it before the multitude, saying - Innocent, am I, of the blood of this man, - Ye, shall see to it for yourselves.
Matthew 27:39-44
And, they who were passing by, were reviling him, shaking their heads,
Mark 14:33-34
And he taketh Peter and James and John with him, and began to be exceedingly amazed, and in great distress;
Acts 21:30
And the whole city was set in motion, and there took place a running together of the people, and, laying hold of Paul, they proceeded to drag him outside the temple, and, straightway, the doors were made fast.
2 Corinthians 1:9
But, we ourselves, within ourselves, have had the sentence of death, that we might not rest our confidence upon ourselves, but upon God, who raiseth the dead,