2 Samuel 22:5-7

The Psalmist's perils. His cry for help

5, 6. For breakers of death had compassed me,

torrents of destruction were affrighting me,

cords of Sheol had surrounded me,

snares of death had encountered me.

The perils to which he had been exposed are described as waves and floods which threatened to engulf him: Sheol and death are represented as laying wait for his life like hunters with nets and snares.