and to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,’
Jonah 2:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me for ever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with her bars was about me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God. American Standard Version (1901) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. Common English Bible at the base of the undersea mountains. I have sunk down to the underworld; its bars held me with no end in sight. But you brought me out of the pit.’ Catholic Public Domain Version The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head. |
and to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,’
He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will continue to see the light.’
I said: In the prime of my life I must go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such intense bitterness; but your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure or weighed the mountains on a balance and the hills on the scales?
then I will bring you down to be with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the underworld like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or display your splendour in the land of the living.
This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.
The mountains see you and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves high.
He stands and shakes the earth; he looks and startles the nations. The age-old mountains break apart; the ancient hills sink down. His pathways are ancient.
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
For fire has been kindled because of my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.