Jonah 2:6

I sank down to the bottom of the sea, deep down in the earth. It was like gates locked around me, I thought I was stuck there for ever. But you, my God, you saved my life. You pulled me up from that deep dark place.

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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

5That water tried to drown me. Deep water was all around me. Seaweed wrapped around my head.

7My life was finishing up, and I called out to you my God. My prayer went up to you, to your special place where you live.

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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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