New Revised Standard Version
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Contemporary English Version
Death attacked from all sides, and I was captured by its painful chains. But when I was really hurting,

New American Bible
I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

sorrows

Psalm 18:4-6 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me. . . .

Psalm 88:6,7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. . . .

Jonah 2:2,3 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Mark 14:33-36 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

gat hold upon me.

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 38:6 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Isaiah 53:3,4 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .