Jonah 2:6

I sank down to where the mountains start rising from the sea bottom. I thought that it would be as though my body would forever be in a prison inside the earth below me. But you, Yahweh God, whom I worship, you rescued me from going down to the place where the dead go. rescued me from going down to the place where the dead go OR rescued me from death OR rescued me back from dying rescued me from going down to the place where the dead go We do not know if Jonah died physically or only metaphorically (figuratively speaking).

Jonah (Easy-to-Translate)

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

5"The water surrounded me, and threatened to drown me. Seaweed was wrapped around my head. seaweed OR sea plants

7When I was almost dead, Yahweh, I thought about you. You heard my prayer to you, up there where you are, in your holy temple. When I was almost dead OR As I was dying When I was almost dead Jonah 2:4

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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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