Psalms 116:3 · KJV
“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}”
— Psalms 116:3
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon {him} as long as I live. {as long...: Heb. in my days}
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Psalms 116 — Context
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice {and} my supplications.
2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon {him} as long as I live. {as long...: Heb. in my days}
3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}
4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5Gracious {is} the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God {is} merciful.
Cross References
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. {troubled: Heb. wried}
Psalms 18:4-6
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}
Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 88:6-7
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Luke 22:44
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.
Hebrews 5:7
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}
Jonah 2:2-3
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}
Isaiah 53:3-4
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}