The sorrows of death compassed me—Surrounded me. That is, he was in imminent danger of death, or in the midst of such pangs and sor…

The sorrows of death. —The Hebrew word can mean either birth pangs (Septuagint and Acts 2:24, where see Note, New Tes…

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death pr…

The cords of death had compassed me about. David now begins to recount the undeniable and glorious proofs by which he had experienced that…

The sorrows of death compassed me
These words and the following, in this verse and (Psalms 18:5), as the…

The first words, "I will love you, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm (Psalms 18:1). Those who trul…

1. In the previous psalm (Psalms 16), the psalmist made a petition, praying to be delivered from his enemies; here he gives than…