then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
Jonah 2:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up 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. |
then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of She'ol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
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.
For you will not leave my soul in She'ol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
LORD, you have brought up my soul from She'ol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
*What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
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.
Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I said, *In the middle of my life I go into the gates of She'ol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.*
Behold, for shalom 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.
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 measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to 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:
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
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.
I also tell you that you are Kefa, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of She'ol will not prevail against it.
For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest She'ol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.