Jonah 2:3

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

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In The King James Version

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, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.’

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Cross References

Psalms 69:1Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Psalms 88:5set apart amongst the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Psalms 116:2Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

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