Jonah 2:3

You threw me into the deep, all the way down to the bottom of the sea. Water flooded all around me; your crashing waves rolled over me.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2He began, “In my agony I cried out to the Lord and he answered me; from the depths of Sheol I pleaded for help and you answered me.

4I said to myself, ‘The Lord has banished me from his sight. Will I ever see your holy Temple again?’

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Cross References

Psalms 69:1God, please save me, because the water is up to my neck!

Psalms 88:5I am abandoned among the dead, lying like a corpse in the grave, forgotten and beyond your care.

Psalms 116:2Because he pays attention to what I say I will pray to him as long as I live.

Lamentations 3:54Water flooded over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

Jonah 1:12“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” Jonah replied. “Then the sea will become calm, because I know it's because of me that you're in this terrible storm.”

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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