Jonah 2:6

To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

Young's Literal Translation

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

5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

7In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol — the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

Job 33:28He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

Psalms 16:10For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Psalms 30:9'What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

Psalms 65:6Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

Psalms 104:6The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

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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