Psalm 18:5 The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. The hangman’s noose was tight at my throat; devil waters rushed over me. Hell’s ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit. The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path. The ropes of death wrapped around me. The traps of death were before me. The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. For when the ropes of death wrapped around me and terrifying torrents of destruction overwhelmed me, taking me to death’s door, to doom’s domain the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.