Psalm 116:3
New International Version
The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

New Living Translation
Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.

English Standard Version
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

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

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

New King James Version
The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

New American Standard Bible
The snares of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

NASB 1995
The cords of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

NASB 1977
The cords of death encompassed me, And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Legacy Standard Bible
The cords of death encompassed me And the distresses of Sheol found me; I found distress and sorrow.

Amplified Bible
The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me, And the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Christian Standard Bible
The ropes of death were wrapped around me, and the torments of Sheol overcame me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The ropes of death were wrapped around me, and the torments of Sheol overcame me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the pains of death surrounded me and the afflictions of Sheol had arrived, I had found misery and affliction.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

Contemporary English Version
Death attacked from all sides, and I was captured by its painful chains. But when I was really hurting,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The ropes of death became tangled around me. The horrors of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.

Good News Translation
The danger of death was all around me; the horrors of the grave closed in on me; I was filled with fear and anxiety.

International Standard Version
The ropes of death were wound around me and the anguish of Sheol came upon me; I encountered distress and sorrow.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The cords of death compassed me, And the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Literal Standard Version
Cords of death have surrounded me, | And straits of Sheol have found me, | I find distress and sorrow.

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

New American Bible
I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

NET Bible
The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

New Heart English Bible
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

World English Bible
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Young's Literal Translation
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The LORD Has Heard My Voice
2Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live. 3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow. 4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”…

Cross References
Luke 21:20
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 18:4
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Psalm 18:5
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

Psalm 55:4
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.

Psalm 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.


Treasury of Scripture

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

sorrows

Psalm 18:4-6
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid…

Psalm 88:6,7
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps…

Jonah 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…

gat hold upon me.

Psalm 32:3,4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…

Psalm 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Isaiah 53:3,4
He 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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Anguish Bands Compassed Cords Death Distress Encompassed Entangled Find Found Full Gat Grave Grip Hell Hold Laid Nether-World Nets Overcome Pains Pangs Round Sheol Snares Sorrow Sorrows Straits Suffered Surrounded Terrors Trouble Underworld
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Anguish Bands Compassed Cords Death Distress Encompassed Entangled Find Found Full Gat Grave Grip Hell Hold Laid Nether-World Nets Overcome Pains Pangs Round Sheol Snares Sorrow Sorrows Straits Suffered Surrounded Terrors Trouble Underworld
Psalm 116
1. The psalmist professes his love and duty to God for his deliverance
12. He studies to be thankful














(3) The pains of hell.--Or, oppressions of Sheol, if we retain the text. But a very slight change in a single letter brings the clause into closer correspondence with Psalm 18:5-6, whence it is plainly borrowed, the nets of Sheol. We may reproduce the original more exactly by using, as it does, the same verb in the last two clauses of the verse:

Nets of Sheol caught me,

Trouble and sorrow I catch.

Verses 3-9. - The psalmist describes his trouble (ver. 3), his prayer for deliverance (ver. 4), and his actual deliverance (vers. 5-9). Verse 3. - The sorrows of death compassed me; literally, the cords of death (comp. Psalm 18:4, where the same expression is used). Death is pictured as seizing his victim and binding him with cords. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me; or, "the straits of hell" (comp. Psalm 118:5; Lamentations 1:3). Death and hell (shell) are closely connected together in the prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10, 18). I found trouble and sorrow; or, "anguish and woe" (comp. Isaiah 38:12-17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The ropes
חֶבְלֵי־ (ḥeḇ·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2256: A rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin

of death
מָ֗וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

entangled me,
אֲפָפ֤וּנִי ׀ (’ă·p̄ā·p̄ū·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 661: To surround, encompass

and the anguish
וּמְצָרֵ֣י (ū·mə·ṣā·rê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4712: Something tight, trouble

of Sheol
שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

overcame me;
מְצָא֑וּנִי (mə·ṣā·’ū·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

I was confronted
אֶמְצָֽא׃ (’em·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

by trouble
צָרָ֖ה (ṣā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

and sorrow.
וְיָג֣וֹן (wə·yā·ḡō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3015: Grief, sorrow


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