Psalms Chapter 116 verse 3 Holy Bible
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
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Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
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Psalms 116 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 3-9. - The psalmist describes his trouble (ver. 3), his prayer for deliverance (ver. 4), and his actual deliverance (vers. 5-9). Verse 3. - The sorrows of death compassed me; literally, the cords of death (comp. Psalm 18:4, where the same expression is used). Death is pictured as seizing his victim and binding him with cords. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me; or, "the straits of hell" (comp. Psalm 118:5; Lamentations 1:3). Death and hell (shell) are closely connected together in the prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10, 18). I found trouble and sorrow; or, "anguish and woe" (comp. Isaiah 38:12-17).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) The pains of hell.--Or, oppressions of Sheol, if we retain the text. But a very slight change in a single letter brings the clause into closer correspondence with Psalm 18:5-6, whence it is plainly borrowed, the nets of Sheol. We may reproduce the original more exactly by using, as it does, the same verb in the last two clauses of the verse:Nets of Sheol caught me,Trouble and sorrow I catch.
