Psalm 18:5

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

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalm 88:3-8

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Psalm 88:15-17

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

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.

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Summary

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

The sorrows, or, cords

General references

Bible References

The sorrows, or, cords

Psalm 86:13
For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
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.

Snares

Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.