American Standard Version
"The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me. "
— Psalms 18:5, American Standard Version
“The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.”
“The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.”
“The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.”
“Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.”
“The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.”
“The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.”
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.