Psalms 116:3

Psalms 116:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• New International Version (NIV)The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Context of Psalms 116:3

1I love Yhwh, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4Then called I upon the name of Yhwh; O Yhwh, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5Gracious is Yhwh, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Psalms 116:3 word by word

אֲפָפ֤וּנִי׀ חֶבְלֵי־מָ֗וֶת וּמְצָרֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל מְצָא֑וּנִי צָרָ֖ה וְיָג֣וֹן אֶמְצָֽא׃Read the interlinear

• The sorrowsחֶ֫בֶלchebel chêbel · cordH2256
• of deathמָ֫וֶתmâveth · deathH4194
• compassedאָפַף'âphaph · to surroundH661
• me, and the painsמֵצַרmêtsar · straitsH4712
• of hellשְׁאוֹלshe'ôl she'ôl · hell: SheolH7585
• gat holdמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• troubleצָרָהtsârâh · distressH6869
• and sorrowיָגוֹןyâgôn · sorrowH3015

Cross-references for Psalms 116:3

• Psalms 18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
• Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
• Jonah 2:2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto Yhwh, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
• Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Hebrews 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Psalms 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
• Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Commentaries on Psalms 116:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The sorrows of death - מות חבלי chebley maveth, the cables or cords of death; alluding to their bonds and fetters during their captivity; or to the cords by which a criminal is bound who is about to be led out to execution; or to the bandages in which the dead were enveloped, when head, arms, body, and limbs were all laced down together. The pains of hell - שאול מצרי metsarey sheol the straitnesses of the grave. So little expectation was there of life…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The sorrows of death - What an expression! We know of no intenser sorrows pertaining to this world than those which we associate with the dying struggle - whether our views in regard to the reality of such sorrows be correct or not. We may be - we probably are - mistaken in regard to the intensity of suffering as ordinarily experienced in death; but still we dread those sorrows more than we do anything else, and all that we dread may be experienced then…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3It is not clear if the psalmist’s crisis was a literal near-death experience or if he was using the term figuratively.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. For similar figures for distress see Psa 18:4, 5. gat hold upon me--Another sense ("found") of the same word follows, as we speak of disease finding us, and of our finding or catching disease.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 116:3

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Hades
• Hell
• Testimony

In the dictionaries

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• Hear
• Hymn
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• Celebrate
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Commentaries on Psalms 116

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings