Jonah 2:5

The waters compassed me about, even to the life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound around my head;

Noyes Bible

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 to thy holy temple!”

6I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; 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 LORD! in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies; Make thy path straight before my face!

Psalms 69:1“For the leader of the music. Upon the Shoshannim. A psalm of David.” Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!

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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