Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
The sorrows, or, cords
Snares
General references
Bible References
The sorrows, or, cords
Psalm 86:13
For great is thy mercy towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.
Acts 2:24
Whom God hath 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 knoweth not his time: as the fishes 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 falleth suddenly upon them.
General references
Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.