Jonah 2:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; then 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 set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

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    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.

    3For 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.

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

  • Jonah 2:6-7
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    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.

  • Lam 3:53-55
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    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.'

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    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 22:5-6
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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 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 2 Sam 22:17
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    17He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

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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.

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

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    4Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul:

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

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

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

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    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

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