Psa 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}
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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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.
Who 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; {in that...: or, for his piety}
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. {by...: or, out of mine affliction} {hell: or, the grave}
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
He 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. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}
Blessed {are} they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. {grieved: Heb. bitter}
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, {and set me} in a large place. {in distress: Heb. out of distress}
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, {and} he saved them out of their distresses.
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; {sorrows: or, cords}
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. {boisterous: or, strong}
[A Song of degrees.] Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
[A Song of degrees.] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings. {an...: Heb. a pit of noise}
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}
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. {by...: or, out of mine affliction} {hell: or, the grave}
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. {daily: or, all the day}
The law of the wise {is} a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are} my delights. {taken...: Heb. found me}
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble {which I suffer} of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land. {invaded...: Heb. spread themselves upon, etc}
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. {sorrows: or, cords}
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, {having} sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
And if {they be} bound in fetters, {and} be holden in cords of affliction;
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly {as} the LORD liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, {there is} but a step between me and death.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad {be} not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. {come...: Heb. find my father}
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day {is} a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and {there is} not strength to bring forth. {blasphemy: or, provocation}
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou {wilt}.