Jonah 2:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the floods surrounded me, all Your waves and billows passed over me.

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  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.
  • Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, 'I am cut off.'
  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
  • Ps 88:5-8 : 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths. 7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Jonah 1:12-16 : 12 And he said to them, Take me up, and throw me into the sea; so shall the sea be calm for you: for I know that for my sake this great storm is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to land; but they could not: for the sea worked, and was tempestuous against them. 14 Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you. 15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.

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    4Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

    5The waters surrounded me, even to my soul: the depths closed in around me, the seaweed was wrapped around my head.

    6I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

    7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

  • Ps 42:7
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    7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.

  • Jonah 2:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly,

    2And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.

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

    6The sorrows of hell surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me;

  • Ps 88:6-7
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    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

    7Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

  • Lam 3:53-55
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    79%

    53They cut off my life in the pit and threw a stone upon me.

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

    55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the lowest pit.

  • Ps 69:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul.

    2I sink in deep mire, where there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • 2 Sam 22:17
    76%

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

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

    5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

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    3The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.

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

  • Job 7:12
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    12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • Ps 130:1
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    1Out of the depths I have cried to you, O LORD.

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

    15Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

  • Jonah 1:12
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    12And he said to them, Take me up, and throw me into the sea; so shall the sea be calm for you: for I know that for my sake this great storm is upon you.

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

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

    5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • Ps 93:3
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    3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

  • Exod 15:5
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    5The depths have covered them: they sank to the bottom like a stone.

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    10You blew with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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

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

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    22You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.

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    34In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.

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    16Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

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    72%

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

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

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    2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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    20You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

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    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.

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    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

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    3O LORD, you have brought my soul up from the grave; you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

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    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.