Jonah 2:5

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

In Context

4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

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Cross References

Psalms 5:8Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.

Psalms 69:1Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

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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