Jonah 2:6
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.
KJV
Circumdederunt me aquæ usque ad animam : abyssus vallavit me, pelagus operuit caput meum.
Vulgate
περιεχύθη ὕδωρ μοι ἕως ψυχῆς, ἄβυσσος ἐκύκλωσέν με ἐσχάτη, ἔδυ ἡ κεφαλή μου εἰς σχισμὰς ὀρέων,
LXX
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
ASV
אֲפָפ֤וּ/נִי מַ֨יִם֙ עַד נֶ֔פֶשׁ תְּה֖וֹם יְסֹבְבֵ֑/נִי ס֖וּף חָב֥וּשׁ לְ/רֹאשִֽׁ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2585From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer for oneself and in prayer for others.37 Thus the psalms were gradually collected into the five books of the Psalter (or "Praises"), the masterwork of prayer in the Old Testament.
Cross-references
- Isa 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Isa 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Job 17:16 — They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Prov 8:25 — Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
- Ps 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Ps 30:3 — O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Ps 71:20 — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- Ps 118:18 — The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
- Ps 143:7 — Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.