“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. The speaker recounts the near-fatal crisis: death's 'snares' and Sheol's 'pangs' created existential terror. The emotional toll ('distress and anguish') adds weight to the account. This verse establishes the severity of the threat from which the speaker was rescued.
Church Fathers on Psalms 116:3
1. “I have loved, since the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer” Psalm 114:1. Let the soul that is sojourning in absence from the Lord sing thus, let that sheep which had strayed sing thus, let that son who had “died and returned to life,” who had “been lost and was found;” Luke 15:6, 24 let our soul sing thus, brethren, and most beloved sons. Let us be taught, and let us abide, and let us sing thus with the Saints: “I have loved: since the Lord will hear the voice of my…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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