Jonah 2:6

Water was poured around me to the soul: 1 The lowest deep compassed me, 1 My head went down

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

5And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: 1 Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple? 1

7to the clefts of the mountains; 1 I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: 1 Yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, 1 It shall burn to hell below; 1 It shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; 1 It shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 1

Job 33:28Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, 1 And my life shall see the light. 1

Psalms 16:10They have enclosed themselves with their own fat: 1 Their mouth has spoken pride. 1

Psalms 30:9And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: 1 Thou hast set my feet in a wide place. 1

Psalms 65:6Who turns the sea into dry land; 1 They shall go through the river on foot; 1 There shall we rejoice in him, 1

Psalms 104:6Ye seed of Abraham, his servants, 1 Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 1

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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