Jonah 2:6

New King James Version

I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.

Cross References

Psalm 30:3

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

Psalm 16:10

For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Isaiah 38:17

Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Habakkuk 3:10

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

Habakkuk 3:6

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

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance?

Psalm 143:7

Answer me speedily, O Lord; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 104:8

They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them.

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 65:6

Who established the mountains by His strength, Being clothed with power;

Psalm 55:23

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

Psalm 30:9

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

Job 33:28

He will redeem his soul from going down to the Pit, And his life shall see the light.

Job 33:24

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

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Matthew 16:18

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

Psalm 18:5

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

Psalm 116:3

The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

‘So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them. ‘For they have all been delivered to death, To the depths of the earth, Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.’

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, Where the floods overflow me.