Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
BSB
ASV
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
KJV
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
"The sorrows." Here he pursues the second progression; and therefore he says, "the sorrows of hell," that is, sorrows similar to those of hell: Gen. 37: "I shall go down mourning into hell." Or the sorrows that are conceived from fear of hell. And these …
"The sorrows of hell compassed me about." From all sides the hell-hounds barked furiously. A cordon of devils hemmed in the hunted man of God; every way of escape was closed up. Satan knows how to blockade our coasts with the iron war-ships of sorrow, but, blessed be God, the port of all prayer is still open, and grace can run the blockade bearing messages from earth to heaven, and blessings in return from heaven to earth. "The snares of death prevented me."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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.
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Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
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By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His…
And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
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Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
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The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.