Jonah 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The waters surged around me up to my neck; the deep enveloped me; seaweed wrapped around my head.

Cross References

Job 33:24

He will take pity on him and say, “Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found him a ransom.”

Job 33:28

He delivered me from passing to the pit, and my life sees light.”

Psalm 104:6

The deeps covered it like a garment; above the mountains stood the waters.

Psalm 104:8

They rushed up the mountains, down the valleys to the place you had fixed for them.

Psalm 116:3

I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.

Psalm 143:7

Hasten to answer me, Lord; for my spirit fails me. Do not hide your face from me, lest I become like those descending to the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor let your devout one see the pit.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Psalm 30:3

O Lord, my God, I cried out to you for help and you healed me.

Psalm 30:9

To you, Lord, I cried out; with the Lord I pleaded for mercy:

Psalm 55:23

Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.

Psalm 65:6

You answer us with awesome deeds of justice, O God our savior, The hope of all the ends of the earth and of those far off across the sea.

Psalm 69:2

Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.

Isaiah 38:10

In the noontime of life I said, I must depart! To the gates of Sheol I have been consigned for the rest of my years.

Isaiah 38:17

Peace in place of bitterness! You have preserved my life from the pit of destruction; Behind your back you cast all my sins.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured with his palm the waters, marked off the heavens with a span, held in his fingers the dust of the earth, weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

Ezekiel 26:20

Then I will thrust you down with those who go down to the pit, to those of the bygone age; I will make you dwell in the netherworld, in the everlasting ruins, with those who have gone down to the pit, So you will never return or have a place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

This has happened so no well-watered tree will gain such lofty height, or lift its crown to the clouds. Not one of those fed by water will tower in height over the rest. For all of them are destined for death, for the underworld, among mere mortals, with those who go down to the pit.

Habakkuk 3:10

at the sight of you the mountains writhed. The clouds poured down water; the deep roared loudly. The sun forgot to rise,

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Ancient mountains were shattered, the age-old hills bowed low, age-old orbits collapsed.

Matthew 16:18

And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For by my wrath a fire is kindled that has raged to the depths of Sheol, It has consumed the earth with its yield, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.