Jonah 2:6

New Living Translation

I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!

Cross References

Job 33:24

he will be gracious and say, ‘Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’

Job 33:28

God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’

Psalm 104:6

You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

Psalm 104:8

Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.

Psalm 116:3

Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don’t turn away from me, or I will die.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.

Psalm 18:5

The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path.

Psalm 30:3

You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death.

Psalm 30:9

“What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send the wicked down to the pit of destruction. Murderers and liars will die young, but I am trusting you to save me.

Psalm 65:6

You formed the mountains by your power and armed yourself with mighty strength.

Psalm 69:2

Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can’t find a foothold. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life, must I now enter the place of the dead? Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”

Isaiah 38:17

Yes, this anguish was good for me, for you have rescued me from death and forgiven all my sins.

Isaiah 40:12

Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?

Ezekiel 26:20

I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

Let the tree of no other nation proudly exult in its own prosperity, though it be higher than the clouds and it be watered from the depths. For all are doomed to die, to go down to the depths of the earth. They will land in the pit along with everyone else on earth.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. The mighty deep cried out, lifting its hands in submission.

Habakkuk 3:6

When he stops, the earth shakes. When he looks, the nations tremble. He shatters the everlasting mountains and levels the eternal hills. He is the Eternal One!

Matthew 16:18

Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains.