Jonah 2:6
\2:5\The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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Deuteronomy 32:22For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
Job 33:28He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Psalms 16:10For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
Psalms 30:9\30:8\My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.
Psalms 65:6\65:5\You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
Psalms 104:6Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over 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 →