Psalms 17:6
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
Open Psalms 17:6 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dolores inferni circumdederunt me ; præoccupaverunt me laquei mortis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὠδῖνες ᾅδου περιεκύκλωσάν με, προέφθασάν με παγίδες θανάτου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:6
- חֶבְלֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל סְבָב֑וּנִי קִ֝דְּמ֗וּנִי מ֣וֹקְשֵׁי מָֽוֶת
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVIII
6. “The pains of hell compassed Me about” ( ver. 5 ). Among those that compassed Me about to destroy Me, were pains of envy, which work death, and lead on to the hell of sin. “The snares of death prevented Me.” They prevented Me, so that they wished to hurt Me first, which shall afterwards be recompensed unto them. Now they seize unto destruction such men as they have evilly persuaded by the boast of righteousness: in the name but not in the reality of which they glory against the Gentiles.