The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}

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}

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked {for some} to take pity, but {there was} none; and for comforters, but I found none. {to take...: Heb. to lament with me}

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and {why} art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him {for} the help of his countenance. {cast: Heb. bowed} {praise: or, give thanks} {for the...: or, his presence is salvation}

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that {was} with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

They shall also gird {themselves} with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame {shall be} upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.