Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.
Acts 2:24
Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Snares

Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knows not his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; 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 your name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.