Jonah 2:6

Modern English Version

I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O  Lord my God.

Cross References

Job 33:24

then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.’

Job 33:28

He will deliver his soul from going down to the pit, and his life will see the light.

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 104:8

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me, and the pangs of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O  Lord; my spirit fails! Hide not Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 18:5

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

Psalm 30:3

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

Psalm 30:9

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

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will cast the wicked down to the pit of destruction; bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalm 65:6

who established the mountains by His strength, who is girded with might.

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood overflows me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said: In the middle of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, it was for my own peace that I had great bitterness; but You have kept my soul 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 meted out heaven with the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the 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 descend into the pit, to the people of old, and make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit so that you will not be inhabited. But I shall set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, or shoot up their tops among the clouds, or their well-watered trees stand up in their height, for they all have been delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw You and trembled; the overflowing water passed by. The deep lifted its voice, and lifted its hands on high.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and shook the nations. The eternal mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been inflamed by My anger, and it will burn to the lowest part of Sheol, and shall consume the earth and its produce, and ignite the foundations of the mountains.