Psalms 116:3
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- KJV
- The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- WEB
- The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
- ASV
- The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- DARBY
- The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
- BLB
- The cords of death surrounded me, and the straits of Sheol found me; distress and sorrow did I find.
- ÅB
- Dødens rep hadde omspent meg, og dødsrikets angster hadde funnet meg; nød og sorg fant jeg.
- OTB
- Dødens snarer omringet meg
Og gravens redsler overmannet meg;
Jeg møtte nød og sorg. - B1930
- Dødens rep hadde omspent mig, og dødsrikets angster hadde funnet mig; nød og sorg fant jeg.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 18:4–6
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Read in contextPsalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Read in contextPsalms 32:3–4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Read in contextPsalms 88:6–7
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Read in contextLuke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Read in contextHebrews 5:7
Who 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;
Read in contextJonah 2:2–3
And 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.
Read in contextMark 14:33–36
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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