2 Samuel 22:6

The ropes of Sheol ¹  tightened around me; ²  the snares of death trapped me. ³ 

The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.

The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death itself stared me in the face.

Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit.

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

The ropes of Sheol ¹  tightened around me; ²  the snares of death trapped me. ³ 

¹ tn “Sheol,” personified here as David’s enemy, is the underworld, place of the dead in primitive Hebrew cosmology.

² tn Heb “surrounded me.”

³ tn Heb “confronted me.”