2Sa 22:6 | NETfull | STEP | The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

2 Samuel 22:6

6 The ropes of Sheol ^{▼▼ “Sheol,” personified here as David’s enemy, is the underworld, place of the dead in primitive Hebrew cosmology.} tightened around me; ^{▼▼ Heb “surrounded me.”}
the snares of death trapped me. ^{▼▼ Heb “confronted me.”}