Psalms 18:5

In my distress I called upon the Lord,.... The great Jehovah, the everlasting I AM, who is the most High in all the earth, and who is able to save, Heb 5:7;

and cried unto my God; as Jesus did, Mat…

The sorrows of hell - Margin, “cords.” The word used here is the same which occurs in the previous verse, and which is there rendered “sorrows.” It is correctly translated here, as in that verse,…

The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (Sa2 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note,…

Render with R.V.,

The cords of Sheol were round about me:

The snares of death came upon me.

The Heb. word rendered sorrowsin the A.V. may no doubt have the meaning pangs, and is so rendered by the…