Psalms 116:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 116:3

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

KJV

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

ON THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS 23 (397)

Do you hear him [the psalmist] saying, "The sorrows of death have compassed me"? "Still, I have loved the Lord even in the sorrows of death. The perils of hell have found me, not fearing indeed, but loving, but hoping, because no distress, no persecution, no dangers, no sword shall separate me from Christ." Therefore, he accepted tribulation and sorrow willingly, knowing that "suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The sorrows of death compassed me,.... Christ, of whom David was a type, was a man of sorrows all his days; and in the garden he was surrounded with sorrow; exceeding sorrowful even unto death, in a view of the sins of his people imputed to him, and under a sense of wrath for them, he was about to bear; and his agonies in the article of death were very grievous, he died the painful and accursed death of the cross.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 5 (1878)

The Psalmist now goes on to describe his condition at the time when he prayed unto God. The sorrows of death compassed me. As hunters surround a stag with dogs and men, so that no way of escape is left, so was David enclosed in a ring of deadly griefs. The bands of sorrow, weakness, and terror with which death is accustomed to bind men ere he drags them away to their long captivity were all around him.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲפָפ֤וּנִי׀	'a.fa.Fu.ni	they surrounded me	H661 →
חֶבְלֵי־	chev.lei-	[the] cords of	H2256 →
מָ֗וֶת	Ma.vet	death	H4194 →
וּמְצָרֵ֣י	u.me.tza.Rei	and [the] distresses of	H4712 →
שְׁא֣וֹל	she.'ol	Sheol	H7585 →
מְצָא֑וּנִי	me.tza.'U.ni	they found me	H4672 →
צָרָ֖ה	tza.Rah	trouble	H6869 →
וְיָג֣וֹן	ve.ya.Gon	and sorrow	H3015 →
אֶמְצָֽא׃	'em.Tza'	I found	H4672 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 22:44
And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
leads to
- Lamentations 1:12
  Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day…
- Hebrews 5:7
  During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
- Psalms 22:12–21
  Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- John 12:27
  Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
Through
Psalms 38:6
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
leads to
- Job 30:28
  I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
- Psalms 35:14
  I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
- Psalms 42:9
  I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms