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Psalms 116:3

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

KJV

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

ASV

אֲפָפ֤וּ/נִי חֶבְלֵי מָ֗וֶת וּ/מְצָרֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל מְצָא֑וּ/נִי צָרָ֖ה וְ/יָג֣וֹן אֶמְצָֽא

Hebrew

Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הוּ
hv
verb · 455×
וֹ
v
noun · 157×
חֶ֣בֶל
chbl
noun · 61×
יָג֖וֹן
ygvn
noun · 14×
מְּצָרִֽים
mtsrym
noun · 3×
נִי
ny
verb · 5×
צָרָֽה
tsrh
noun · 72×
שְׁא֣וֹל
sh'vl
verb · 66×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 2:6 — The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
  • 1Sam 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the
  • 2Sam 22:6 — The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
  • Acts 2:24 — Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
  • Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  • Isa 53:3 — 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.
  • Jas 5:13 — Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Luke 8:24 — And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
  • Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
  • Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
  • Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
  • Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  • Matt 14:30 — But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
  • Prov 13:14 — The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
  • Ps 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 22:24 — For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 40:2 — He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
  • Ps 40:12 — For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
  • Ps 55:4 — My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
  • Ps 88:6 — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
  • Ps 88:17 — They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
  • Ps 107:13 — Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
  • Ps 118:5 — I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
  • Ps 120:1 — In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
  • Ps 130:1 — Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.