4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.


In Context

1 {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

5 The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.

6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

Psalm 18:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.