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
because your loyal love [is] great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below.
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.
Acts 2:24
God raised {him} up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible [for] him to be held by it.

Snares

Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

General references

Lamentations 3:55
I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.