Jonah 2:6

To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, || The earth, her bars [are] behind me for all time. And You bring my life up from the pit, O YHWH my God.

Literal Standard 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

5Waters have surrounded me to the soul, || The deep surrounds me, || The weed is bound to my head.

7In the feebleness of my soul within me, || I have remembered YHWH, || And my prayer comes to You, || Into Your holy temple.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled in My anger, || And it burns to the lowest [part] of Sheol, || And consumes earth and its increase, || And sets on fire [the] foundations of mountains.

Job 33:28He has ransomed my soul || From going over into the pit, || And my life looks on the light.

Psalms 16:10For You do not leave my soul to Sheol, || Nor give your Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms 30:9“What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?

Psalms 65:6Establishing mountains by His power, || He has been girded with might,

Psalms 104:6The abyss! You have covered it as with clothing, || Waters stand above hills.

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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