Psalms 18:4

David describes being surrounded by the cords of death and overwhelming floods of destruction. It matters because it vividly portrays the depth of danger from which God rescued him.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Mark 14:33–34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
• Matt 27:24–25When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
• 2 Cor 1:9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
• Isa 53:3–4He 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.
• Ps 22:12–13Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
• Jonah 2:2–7And 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.
• Ps 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
• Matt 26:47And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
• 2 Sam 22:5–6When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
• Ps 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Matt 27:39–44And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
• Matt 26:38–39Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Acts 21:30And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
• Isa 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
• Matt 26:55In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

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