The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Ver. 3. The sorrows of death compassed me] See Psalms 18:4,5, Pictura poetica ingentium periculorum. Sorrows, or pangs, and those deadly ones, and these compassed me as a bird in a snare, or a beast in a gin.
The pains of hell (or the griefs of the grave) gat hold] Heb. found me, as Numbers 32:23 .
I found trouble and sorrow] Straits inextricable cause sorrows inexplicable. The word signifieth such sorrow as venteth itself by sighing, Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 51:11 .