The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
The verse portrays a soul hemmed in on every side by death-bound sorrows and laid hold of by anguish, trouble and pain. It is the language of one who feels surrounded rather than merely threatened, and seized rather than merely touched, by mortal distress. On the night before His betrayal and death, Jesus Himself sang these words. He sang them as part of a larger song that also cried out to the Lord for deliverance and rested in trust in His graciousness and mercy.
The verse portrays a soul hemmed in on every side by death-bound sorrows and laid hold of by anguish, trouble and pain. It is the language of one who feels surrounded rather than merely threatened, and seized rather than merely touched, by mortal distress. On the night before His betrayal and death, Jesus Himself sang these words. He sang them as part of a larger song that also cried out to the Lord for deliverance and rested in trust in His graciousness and mercy.