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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 116:3 — KJV
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Psalms 116:3
King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
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Commentary
Commentary on Psalms 116:3
Theological / DevotionalHell. Heb. she’ol, not a hell of torment but the figurative abode of the dead, both of the righteous and of the wicked (see on Prov. 15:11). This text lends no support to the doctrine of an ever-burning hell. The psalmist applies the expressions “sorrows of death” and “pains of hell” to himself as descriptive of experiences he passed through in this life and from which he had been delivered. Hence the expression “pains of hell” can have no connection with an experience after death. The trial through which the psalmist passed had evidently brought him nigh to death.
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