The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
⛓ Read Psalm 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The cords of death encompassed me... in my distress I called upon YHWH... and he heard' supplies the deliverance-from-death-through-prayer pattern Paul reproduces: mortal peril, reliance on God, rescue, and the role of supplication (v. 11). Recurrence of this lament-to-rescue schema across the Psalter supports availability.
Medium confidence'Freed him from the agony/pangs of death' (v.24) uses ōdines thanatou, the LXX rendering of the 'cords/pangs of death' surrounding the psalmist (Ps 18:4-5; 2 Sam 22:5-6), where God delivers from Sheol. Low-to-moderate verbal volume on the death-pangs phrase; thematic coherence with deliverance from death is strong, but the wording is a stock LXX idiom (also Ps 116:3), so contested.
Low confidence