Psalms 116:3 Cross References - NSB

³ The ropes of death became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.

⁴ The cords of death surrounded me. The torrents of wickedness frightened me. ⁵ The cords of the grave surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me. ⁶ I called on Jehovah in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.

³ When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long. ⁴ Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.

⁶ I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in sadness.

⁶ You have put me in the bottom of the pit, in deep dark places. ⁷ Your rage lies heavily on me. You afflict me with all your waves.

³ He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much. ⁴ He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

² He said: »I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice. ³ »For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me!

³³ He took Peter, James and John with him. He was very distressed and troubled. ³⁴ He said to them: »I am very sorrowful to the point of death. Stay here with me and watch.« ³⁵ He went forward a little ways and fell on the ground to pray. He prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. ³⁶ He said: »Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup from me. Even so not what I will, but what you will.«

⁴⁴ (possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

⁷ In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)