Jonah 2:5

Jonah chapter 2 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

Context

v.4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

v.5This passage

v.6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.