Jonah 2:6

I sank down to where the mountains start rising [MET] from the bottom of the sea. I thought that forever it would be as though my body would be in a prison [MTY] inside the earth below me. But you, Yahweh God, whom I worship, rescued me from going down to the place of the dead.

Translation for Translators

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 water surrounded me, and threatened to drown me. Seaweed was wrapped around my head.

7When I was almost dead [EUP], Yahweh, I ◄thought about/prayed to► you. You heard my prayer, up there where you are, in your holy temple.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains.

Job 33:28He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are, and I will continue to enjoy being alive.’

Psalms 16:10because you, Yahweh, will not allow my soul/spirit to remain in the place where the dead people are; you will not allow me, your godly one, to stay there.

Psalms 30:9I said, “Yahweh, ◄what will you gain if I die?/ you won’t gain anything if I die► [MTY]. ◄In what way will it benefit you?/it won’t benefit you at all► if I go to the place where the dead people are [RHQ]. Dead people are certainly not able to praise you [RHQ], and they are not able to tell others that you are trustworthy [RHQ]!

Psalms 65:6By your strength you put the mountains in their places, showing that you are very powerful.

Psalms 104:6Later, you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket, with the water that covered 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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