4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
1 To the Overseer. — By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: — I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
3 The 'Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.
4 Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
6 In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.
18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
18:4The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
18:4The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
18:4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
18:4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
18:4The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
18:4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.