Jonah 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have 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. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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  • Jonah 2:2-4
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    86%

    2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

    3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

    4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Jonah 2:6-7
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    6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

    7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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

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

    55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

  • Ps 69:1-2
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    82%

    1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

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

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

    6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    81%

    4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

    5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

  • Ps 42:6-7
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    6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

  • Ps 69:14-15
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    79%

    14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

    15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

  • 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 17 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

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

    7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

  • 16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

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

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

  • 17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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

  • 5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

    4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • 1 Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

  • 11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • 14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

  • 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 5 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

  • 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

  • 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • 16 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.