Jonah 2:6

The English Standar Version

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 merciful to him, 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 into the pit, and my life shall look upon 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 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! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.[6]

Psalm 18:5

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

Psalm 30:3

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.[1]

Psalm 30:9

"What profit is there in my death,[4] if I go down to the pit?[5] Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 65:6

the one who by his strength established the mountains, being 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 middle[4] of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered 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 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 make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man,[3] with those who go down to the pit.

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[2] I will build my church, and the gates of hell[3] shall not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

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