Psalms 18:5 (KJV)

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Psalms 18:5 KJV

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

What these words meant when the King James Bible was translated.

David rejoices in the deliverances God wrought for himThe first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength,"are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock...

Psalms 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms 88:3–8 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …
Psalms 88:15–17 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Psalms 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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.

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