Jonah 2:6

World Messianic Bible British Edition

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.

Cross References

Job 33:24

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 104:8

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 143:7

Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 18:5

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

Psalm 30:3

LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Psalm 55:23

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Psalm 65:6

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; 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 sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

Habakkuk 3:10

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

Matthew 16:18

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Sheol will not prevail against it.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.