Psalms 18:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:4

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

KJV

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ASV

The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

WEB

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

YLT

Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

DBT

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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34 verses on the floor

Jonah 2:2
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.
Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Psalms 142:2
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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His spirit was overwhelmed, and he looked upon himself as a lost man; see Ps. cxvi. The more earnest we have been with God for deliverance, and the more direct answer it is to our prayers, the more we are obliged to be thankful.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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