Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
New American Standard Bible
The snares of death confronted me.
King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Holman Bible
the snares of death confronted me.
International Standard Version
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
A Conservative Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
American Standard Version
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Amplified
The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
Bible in Basic English
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Julia Smith Translation
The pains of hades surrounded me: the snares of death anticipated me.
King James 2000
The sorrows of sheol surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; [the] snares of death confronted me.
Modern King James verseion
The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The pains of hell came about me; the snares of death overtook me. {TYNDALE: The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.}
NET Bible
The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
New Heart English Bible
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
The Emphasized Bible
The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,
Webster
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.
World English Bible
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
4 The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. 5 The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me. 6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.
Cross References
Psalm 86:13
For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalm 88:3-8
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
Psalm 88:15-17
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.
Psalm 116:3
The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
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 taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Acts 2:24
Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;