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Psalms 116:3 Cross-References
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“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. gat: Heb. found me”
Psalms 116:3 (KJV)
Commentary on Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. This verse describes the crisis that prompted the psalmist's cry. The sorrows of death (chebley-mavet, חֶבְלֵי־מָוֶת) literally means 'cords of death'—the ropes that bind and drag toward death. The imagery is of being trapped, captured, pulled inexorably toward destruction.The pains of hell (metzarei sheol, וּמְצָרֵי שְׁאוֹל) uses Sheol (שְׁאוֹל), the Hebrew term for the realm of the dead. Metzarei means straits, distresses, anguish. The psalmist felt Sheol's grip—death's power closing in. Wh...
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Cross-References for Psalms 116:3
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“The sorrows of death compassed me”
“I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”
“in the darkest depths.”
“my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.”
“in the days of his flesh”
“I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.,And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice., וַיֹּאמֶר קָרָאתִי מִצָּרָה לִי אֶל־יְהוָה וַיַּעֲנֵנִי מִבֶּטֶן שְׁאוֹל שִׁוַּעְתִּי שָׁמַעְתָּ קוֹלִי׃ ,And he said: I called out of mine affliction Unto the LORD, and He answered me; Out of the belly of the nether-world cried I, And Thou heardest my voice.,2:3 καὶ εἶπεν ἐβόησα ἐν θλίψει μου πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεόν μου καὶ εἰσήκουσέν μου ἐκ κοιλίας ᾅδου κραυγῆς μου ἤκουσας φωνῆς μου,2:3 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.,,,,”
“And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
“James”
“and rejected by men; a man of suffering”