Psalm 116:10 shows the psalmist's faith despite affliction, revealing the response to the distress described in verse 3.

Psalm 18:4-6 uses nearly identical imagery of death's snares and distress, then adds God hearing from His temple.

Psalm 88:6 deepens the imagery of Sheol's depths, echoing the psalmist's experience of being trapped in death's grip.

Psalm 130:1 uses 'out of the depths' as a parallel cry from deep distress to the Lord.

Psalm 9:13 also mentions being lifted from the 'gates of death', reinforcing the plea for rescue from death's grip.

Psalm 40:2 describes being drawn from the 'pit of destruction', a parallel rescue from death's trap.

Psalm 55:4 explicitly mentions 'terrors of death' falling upon the psalmist, directly paralleling the cords of death.

Psalm 120:1 directly parallels the cry of distress and the assurance that the Lord answers.

Psalm 22:24 affirms that God does not despise the afflicted, providing hope that the cry from death's cords is heard.

Psalm 38:6 depicts being bowed down and mourning, a parallel emotional state of distress and anguish.

Psalm 88:7 attributes the suffering to God's overwhelming waves, adding a divine cause to the distress.

Psalm 118:5 echoes the cry from distress, showing the pattern of calling on the Lord and being answered.

Psalm 88:17 speaks of being surrounded by troubles like a flood, similar to being encompassed by death's cords.

Hebrews 5:7 explicitly connects Jesus' loud cries and tears to being saved from death, echoing the psalmist's plea.

Mark 14:33-36 shows Jesus in similar anguish, praying to avoid the cup, fulfilling the psalmist's experience of death's agony.

Jonah 2:2 explicitly cries from Sheol, mirroring the psalmist's cry and showing a pattern of deliverance.

Job 38:17 uses the same 'gates of death' imagery, showing death as a realm with boundaries that only God knows.

Lamentations 3:55 echoes the cry from the depths of the pit, a direct parallel to the psalmist's distress.

Matthew 26:38 has Jesus saying his soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to death, directly echoing the psalm's language.

2 Samuel 22:6 uses the identical 'cords of death' and 'snares of the grave' imagery — a direct parallel to the psalmist's experience.

Acts 2:24 directly echoes 'pangs of death' from this verse, applying it to Christ's resurrection — God loosed the pangs that held Him.

Isaiah 53:3 describes the suffering servant as 'a man of sorrows' — echoing the psalmist's own distress and sorrow.

Isaiah 53:4 says the servant bore our sufferings — a parallel to the psalmist's personal anguish, now seen as vicarious.

Luke 22:44 intensifies the agony with sweat like blood, paralleling the extreme distress of the psalmist.

Job 36:8 speaks of being bound by 'cords of affliction' — a similar metaphor for being trapped in suffering as the psalmist's 'cords of death'.

Jonah 2:3 describes being cast into the deep with waves, paralleling the overwhelming distress but with water imagery.

1 Samuel 2:6 declares God's power over death and the grave — the same realm the psalmist was entangled in.