2 Samuel 22:5
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
KJV
Quia circumdederunt me contritiones mortis : torrentes Belial terruerunt me.
Vulgate
ὅτι περιέσχον με συντριμμοὶ θανάτου, χείμαρροι ἀνομίας ἐθάμβησάν με·
LXX
For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
ASV
כִּ֥י אֲפָפֻ֖/נִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי מָ֑וֶת נַחֲלֵ֥י בְלִיַּ֖עַל יְבַעֲתֻֽ/נִי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בְּ֭לִיַּעַל
bly'l
noun · 27×
וֹ
v
noun · 157×
ךָ
k
noun · 5×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נִי
ny
verb · 5×
נִי
ny
verb · 16×
נַ֣חַל
nchl
noun · 140×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Jonah 2:3 — For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
- Luke 6:48 — He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was foun
- Ps 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Ps 69:14 — Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.