Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

In Context

5The waters encompassed me around, even to the soul. The deep was round about me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered LORD. And my prayer came in to thee, into thy holy temple.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Job 33:28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

Psalms 16:10For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.

Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 65:6who by his strength sets firm the mountains, being girded about with might,

Psalms 104:6Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:2-10

Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord , and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The… Read the whole commentary →

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