Jonah 2:6

I 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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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

5The waters compassed me about, even to the life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound around my head;

7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah, And my prayer came to thee, To thy holy temple.

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Cross References

Job 33:28He hath delivered me from going down to the pit, And my life beholdeth the light.”

Psalms 16:10For thou wilt not give me up to the underworld; Nor wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see the pit.

Psalms 30:9“What will my blood profit thee, that I should go down to the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?

Psalms 65:6Thou makest fast the mountains by thy power, Being girded with strength!

Psalms 104:6Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains!

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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