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Psa 18:5 — The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

The sorrows		or, cords. Psa 86:13; Psa 88:3-8,15-17; Act 2:24
snares		Ecc 9:12

Correlating Passages

The sorrows

	Psa 86:13	For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
	Psa 88:3	For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
	Psa 88:4	I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
	Psa 88:5	Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
	Psa 88:6	Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
	Psa 88:7	Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
	Psa 88:8	Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
	Psa 88:15	I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
	Psa 88:16	Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
	Psa 88:17	They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
	Act 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.

snares

Ecc 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 18:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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