Jonah 2:3
In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
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- Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
- Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
- Ps 69:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck. 2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
- Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters. 15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
- Ps 88:5-8 : 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
- Jonah 1:12-16 : 12 And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you. 13 And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them. 14 So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you. 15 So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry. 16 Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.
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4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
7 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
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7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
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1 And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
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5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;
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6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
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1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.
2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
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17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
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4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
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12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
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1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
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14 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.
15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
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12 And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.
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16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
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4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.
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22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
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3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
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5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
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10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
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10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.
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4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
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16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.
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22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
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16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
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14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
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26 The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.
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8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.
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2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
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20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
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26 Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.
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6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
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11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
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3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.