then He shows favour to him, and says, ‘Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.
Jonah 2:6 - The Scriptures 2009 “I went down to the base of the mountains, the earth with its bars were behind me forever. But You brought up my life from the pit, O יהוה, my Elohim. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God. American Standard Version (1901) I 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. Common English Bible at the base of the undersea mountains. I have sunk down to the underworld; its bars held me with no end in sight. But you brought me out of the pit.’ Catholic Public Domain Version The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head. |
then He shows favour to him, and says, ‘Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.
He has redeemed my being from going down to the pit, and my life sees the light.’
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
They go up the mountains; They go down the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.
The cords of death were around me, And the pains of She’ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Hasten, answer me, O יהוה; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those going down into the pit.
For You do not leave my being in She’ol, Neither let Your Lovingly-committed One see corruption.
The cords of She’ol were all around me; The snares of death were before me.
יהוה, You brought me up from She’ol; You have kept me alive, from going down into the pit.
“What gain is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Would dust praise You? Would it declare Your truth?
For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You.
Who established the mountains by His strength, Being girded with might;
I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me.
I said, “Am I to go into the gates of She’ol in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”
“See, for peace I had what was bitter, bitter. But You have lovingly delivered my being from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens with a span, and contained the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
then I shall bring you down with those who go down into the pit, to the people of old. And I shall make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in wastes of old, with those who go to the pit, so that you do not return. But I shall establish splendour in the land of the living.
so that none of the trees by the waters would exalt themselves because of their height, nor set their tops among the thick foliage, and that no tree which drinks water would ever be high enough to reach up to them. ‘For all of them shall be given up to death, to the depths of the earth, among the children of men who go down to the pit.’
The mountains shall see You, they tremble. The storm of water shall pass over. The deep shall give forth its voice, It shall lift up its hands.
He shall stand and measure the earth. He shall look and shake the nations. And the ancient mountains are shattered, The age-old hills shall bow. His ways are everlasting.
And I also say to you that you are Kĕpha, and on this rock I shall build My assembly, and the gates of She’ol shall not overcome it.
For a fire was kindled in My wrath And burns to the bottom of She’ol, And consumes the earth and its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of mountains.