Jonah 2:5

American Standard Version (1901)

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David]. Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

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    5For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

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