Jonah 2:5

The waters closed around me up to my neck; 1 the deep was all around me; 1 seaweed wrapped around my head. 1

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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

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

6I went down to the bases of the mountains; 1 the earth with its bars closed upon me forever. 1 Yet you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh, my God! 1

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Cross References

Psalms 5:8Oh Lord, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; 1 make your path straight before me. 1

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

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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