Jonah 2:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

Jonah 2:6 Cross References

Job 33:24

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.

Job 33:28

He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light

Psalm 104:6

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 104:8

They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O LORD; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me; Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of Sheol were round about me: The snares of death came on me.

Psalm 30:3

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol: Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

Psalm 65:6

Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; Being girded about with might:

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Ezekiel 26:20

then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

Ezekiel 31:14

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up in their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by: The deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations: And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.

Matthew 16:18

And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest pit, And devoureth the earth with her increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.