Jonah 2:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

Cross References

Job 33:24

And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

Job 33:28

He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

Psalm 104:6

Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

Psalm 104:8

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

Psalm 116:3

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

Psalm 30:3

O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Psalm 65:6

The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

Psalm 69:2

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

Isaiah 38:17

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

Isaiah 40:12

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Ezekiel 26:20

Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

Habakkuk 3:6

From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.

Matthew 16:18

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.