Jonah 2:6

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

I had sunk down deep below the mountains beneath the sea. I knew that forever, I would be a prisoner there. But, you, Lord God, rescued me from that pit.

Cross References

Psalm 30:3

saving me from death and the grave.

Psalm 16:10

I am your chosen one. You won't leave me in the grave or let my body decay.

Isaiah 38:17

It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins.

Habakkuk 3:10

mountains trembled at the sight of you; rain poured from the clouds; ocean waves roared and rose.

Habakkuk 3:6

When you stopped, the earth shook; when you stared, nations trembled; when you walked along your ancient paths, eternal mountains and hills crumbled and collapsed.

Isaiah 40:12

Did any of you measure the ocean by yourself or stretch out the sky with your own hands? Did you put the soil of the earth in a bucket or weigh the hills and mountains on balance scales?

Psalm 143:7

Please hurry, Lord, and answer my prayer. I feel hopeless. Don't turn away and leave me here to die.

Psalm 104:8

down the mountains and through the valleys to the place you prepared.

Psalm 104:6

You covered the earth with the ocean that rose above the mountains.

Psalm 65:6

You are strong, and your mighty power put the mountains in place.

Psalm 55:23

But what about those people who are cruel and brutal? You will throw them down into the deepest pit long before their time. I trust you, Lord!

Psalm 30:9

“What good will it do you if I am in the grave? Once I have turned to dust, how can I praise you or tell how loyal you are?

Job 33:28

and rescued me from death! Now I will see the light.”

Job 33:24

The angel shows kindness, commanding death to release us, because the price was paid.

Deuteronomy 32:22

“My people, I will breathe out fire that sends you down to the world of the dead. It will scorch your farmlands and burn deep down under the mountains.

Matthew 16:18

So I will call you Peter, which means “a rock.” On this rock I will build my church, and death itself will not have any power over it.

Psalm 18:5

Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.

Psalm 116:3

Death attacked from all sides, and I was captured by its painful chains. But when I was really hurting,

Isaiah 38:10

I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead.

Ezekiel 26:20

and carry you down to the world of the dead, where you will join people of ancient times and towns ruined long ago. You will stay there and never again be a city filled with people.

Ezekiel 31:14

Never again will any tree dare to grow as tall as this tree, no matter how much water it has. Every tree must die, just as humans die and go down to the world of the dead.

Psalm 69:2

I am sinking deep in the mud, and my feet are slipping. I am about to be swept under by a mighty flood.