Jonah 2:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ “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.

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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 shows favour to him, and says, ‘Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my being from going down to the pit, and my life sees the light.’

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 104:8

They go up the mountains; They go down the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death were around me, And the pains of She’ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

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.

Psalm 16:10

For You do not leave my being in She’ol, Neither let Your Lovingly-committed One see corruption.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of She’ol were all around me; The snares of death were before me.

Psalm 30:3

יהוה, You brought me up from She’ol; You have kept me alive, from going down into the pit.

Psalm 30:9

“What gain is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Would dust praise You? Would it declare Your truth?

Psalm 55:23

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.

Psalm 65:6

Who established the mountains by His strength, Being girded with might;

Psalm 69:2

I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me.

Isaiah 38:10

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?”

Isaiah 38:17

“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.

Isaiah 40:12

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?

Ezekiel 26:20

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.

Ezekiel 31:14

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.’

Habakkuk 3:10

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.

Habakkuk 3:6

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.

Matthew 16:18

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.

Deuteronomy 32:22

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.