Jonah 2:6

A Conservative Version

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Cross References

Psalm 30:3

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

Psalm 16:10

For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

Habakkuk 3:10

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

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has 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?

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 104:8

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them.

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 65:6

who by his strength sets firm the mountains, being girded about with might,

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, will 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 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?

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

Job 33:24

then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Matthew 16:18

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

Psalm 18:5

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

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Isaiah 38:10

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

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring thee down with those who 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 those who go down to the pit, th

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 on their height, [even] all that drink water. For they are all

Psalm 69:2

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