Jonah 2:6

Legacy Standard Bible

“I went down to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed behind me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.

Cross References

Job 33:24

Then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found atonement’;

Job 33:28

‘He has redeemed my soul from passing into the pit, And my life shall see the light.’

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 104:8

The mountains went up; the valleys went down To the place which You founded for them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me And the distresses of Sheol found me; I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

¶Answer me quickly, O Yahweh, my spirit wastes away; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For You will not forsake my soul to Sheol; You will not give Your Holy One over to see corruption.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 30:3

O Yahweh, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of corruption; Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalm 65:6

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

Psalm 69:2

I have sunk in deep clay, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

Isaiah 38:17

¶“Behold, for my own well-being I had great bitterness; But it is You who has held back my soul from the pit of nothingness, 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 encompassed the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales?

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

so that all the trees by the waters may not be lofty in their height, nor put their top among the clouds, nor their dominant ones—all the well-watered ones—stand in their loftiness. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw You and writhed; The downpour of waters passed by. The deep gave forth its voice; It lifted high its hands.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured out the earth; He looked and startled the nations. So the perpetual mountains were shattered; The ancient hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

Matthew 16:18

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And it consumes the earth with its produce, And it sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.