KJV King James Version
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
WEB World English Bible
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
ASV American Standard Version
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
Surrounding context — Psalm 116
1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God [is] merciful.
6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
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Psalm 18:4-6The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.Psalm 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.Psalm 32:3-4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.Psalm 88:6-7Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.Hebrews 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;Jonah 2:2-3And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.Mark 14:33-36And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;Isaiah 53:3-4He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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