Psalm 18:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

New Living Translation
The ropes of death entangled me; floods of destruction swept over me.

English Standard Version
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;

Berean Study Bible
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

New American Standard Bible
The ropes of death encompassed me, And the torrents of destruction terrified me.

NASB 1995
The cords of death encompassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.

NASB 1977
The cords of death encompassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.

Amplified Bible
The cords of death surrounded me, And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

Christian Standard Bible
The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Contemporary English Version
Death had wrapped its ropes around me, and I was almost swallowed by its flooding waters.

Good News Translation
The danger of death was all around me; the waves of destruction rolled over me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The ropes of death had become tangled around me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me.

International Standard Version
The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

NET Bible
The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

New King James Version
The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

King James 2000 Bible
The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

New Heart English Bible
The waves of death surrounded me, and the currents of ungodliness overwhelmed me.

World English Bible
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

American King James Version
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

American Standard Version
The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

A Faithful Version
The cords of death hemmed me in, and the floods of ungodliness assailed me.

Darby Bible Translation
The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

English Revised Version
The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(18:3) The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The paynes of hell came aboute me, the snares of death toke holde vpo me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Cords of death have surrounded me, "" And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

Young's Literal Translation
Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

Smith's Literal Translation
The pains of death surrounded me, and the torrents of Belial made me afraid.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because the destructions of death surrounded me and the torrents of evil ones troubled me.

Lamsa Bible
For the pains of death surrounded me, and the rush of ungodly men have confused me.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The cords of Death compassed me, And the floods of Belial assailed me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.
















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