Psalms 18:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalms 18:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Matthew 27:24-25
When 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. …
Mark 14:33-34
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; …
2 Samuel 22:5-6
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-19)

The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (2 Sam. 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note, The private compositions of good men, designed by them for their own use, may be serviceable to the public, that others may not only borrow light from their candle, but heat from their fire. Example…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. sorrows--literally, “bands as of a net” (Psa 116:3). floods--denotes “multitude.”