Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.Psalm 18:4 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe sorrows of death compassed me - חבלי מות chebley maveth, the cables or cords of death. He was almost taken in those nets or stratagems by which, if he had been entangled, he would have lost his life. The stratagems to which he refers were those that were intended for his destruction; hence called the cables or cords of death.
The floods of ungodly men - Troops of wicked men were rushing upon him like an irresistible torrent; or like the waves of the sea, one impelling another forward in successive ranks; so that, thinking he must be overwhelmed by them, he was for the moment affrighted; but God turned the torrent aside, and he escaped.
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sorrows
Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold on me: I found trouble and sorrow.
2 Samuel 22:5,6 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid...
Isaiah 13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails...
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...
Matthew 26:38,39 Then said he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry you here, and watch with me...
Mark 14:33,34 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy...
2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
floods
Psalm 22:12,13,16 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round...
Jonah 2:2-7 And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice...
Matthew 26:47,55 And while he yet spoke, see, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves...
Matthew 27:24,25,39-44 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water...
Acts 21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple...
ungodly men [Heb.] belial
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Afraid Assailed Bands Belial Compassed Cords Death Destruction Encompassed Entangled Evil Fear Floods Overwhelmed Perdition Round Seas Sorrows Streams Surrounded Terrified Torrents Ungodliness Ungodly WorthlessAfraid Assailed Bands Belial Compassed Cords Death Destruction Encompassed Entangled Evil Fear Floods Overwhelmed Perdition Round Seas Sorrows Streams Surrounded Terrified Torrents Ungodliness Ungodly WorthlessTHE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®.Psalm 18:4 Mobile Bible
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