Jonah 2:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A alm 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 mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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  • Jonah 2:2-4
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    86%

    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.

  • Jonah 2:6-7
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    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.

    7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

  • Lam 3:53-55
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    53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

    54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

    55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

  • Ps 69:1-2
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    1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A alm 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.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

    6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

    5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • Ps 42:6-7
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    6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

  • Ps 69:14-15
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    14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

    15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

  • 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

  • Ps 88:6-7
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    6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the dee.

    7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

  • 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

  • Ps 124:4-5
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    4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

    5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

  • 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

  • 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

  • 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

    4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 1 A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

  • 11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6 He hath set me in dark pces, as they that be dead of old.

    7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • 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 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

  • 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

  • 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.

  • 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my ste; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.