Psalms 114:3

Verse 3. Sorrows. Hebrew “bands.”—Perils. Hebrew “the straitness of the grave, ( Calmet.) the fortifications of hell.” Saint Jerome Bible.—I am like one buried after the manner of the Egyptians, who bound up the dead, and laid them in small holes cut out of a rock. David uses similar expressions to denote the dangers to which he had been exposed, 1 Kennicott. 21:12. Psalms 17:6. Calmet.—They may be applicable to all the just. Bert.—When I offended, death and hell, which are due to sin, threatened me unawares; affliction opened my eyes, and I thereupon prayed to thee. Worthington.