“The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 18 contains 50 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.