Jonah 2:5 · KJV
“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
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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. {bottoms: Heb. cuttings off} {corruption: or, the pit}
Jonah 2 — Context
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. {midst: Heb. heart}
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, {even} to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I 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. {bottoms: Heb. cuttings off} {corruption: or, the pit}
7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Cross References
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.
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. {an...: Heb. a pit of noise}