Jonah 2:5
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
Jonah 2:5 in other translations
| BSB | The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head. |
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| WEB | The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. |
| ASV | The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head. |
| YLT | Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head. |
| DARBY | The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head. |
| BBE | The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head. |
| Webster | The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head. |
What does Jonah 2:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jonah 2:1-9
Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men may shut us…
Jonah 2:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jonah 2:5
- Psalms 69:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
- Psalms 40:2
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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Context
- Jonah 2:4
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
- Jonah 2:5
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
- Jonah 2:6
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.
Jonah 2:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y yo dije: Echado soy de delante de tus ojos: mas aun veré tu santo templo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et moi je disais: Je suis rejeté de devant tes yeux: toutefois, je regarderai encore vers le temple de ta sainteté. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich sprach:Verstoßen bin ich aus deinen Augen; dennoch werde ich wieder hinschauen nach deinem heiligen Tempel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et ego dixi: Abjectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum; verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum. |