Jonah 2:3

You had thrown me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, 1 and the currents surrounded me; 1 all your waves and billows 1 passed over me. 1

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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.

In Context

2He said, 1 “I called out to Yahweh about my distress 1 and he answered me; 1 from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help! 1 You heard my voice. 1

4I said, 'I am driven out from before your eyes; 1 yet I will again look toward your holy temple.' 1

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Cross References

Psalms 69:1Save me, God; 1 for the waters have put my life in danger. 1

Psalms 88:5I am abandoned among the dead; 1 I am like the dead who lie in the grave, 1 about whom you care no more 1 because they are cut off from your power. 1

Psalms 116:2Because he listened to me, 1 I will call on him as long as I live. 1

Lamentations 3:54and they caused waters to overflow, covering my head. I said, 'I have been cut off!' 1

Jonah 1:12Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you, for I know that it is because of me that this great storm is happening to you.”

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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