Jonah 2:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.

Cross References

Job 33:24

and he is gracious to that person and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit; I have found a ransom;

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and my life shall see the light.’

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 104:8

They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys, to the place that you appointed for them.

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 16:10

For you do not give me up to Sheol or let your faithful one see the Pit.

Psalm 18:5

the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 30:3

O Lord, you brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone 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 tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 65:6

By your strength you established the mountains; you are 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 sweeps over me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said: In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness, but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of long ago, and I will make you live in the world below, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For all of them are handed over to death, to the world below; along with mortals, with those who go down to the Pit.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw you and writhed; a torrent of water swept by; the deep gave forth its voice. The sun raised high its hands;

Habakkuk 3:6

He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.