Jonah 2:3
For thou ghadst cast me into the deep, in the 3midst of the seas; and the hfloods *compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
g:
Psalms 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 69:0 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
Psalms 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 88:4-88:7 4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
3:
Heb. heart.
h:
Psalms 69:0 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
Psalms 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
*:
compassed-surrounded.
this introduceth the account of his distress, mentioned Jon 2:2.
the Almighty, offended by my frowardness and obstinacy,
though the mariners’ hands heaved me overboard, it was thy hand that did it, and pressed me sore. The deep; the bottom of the sea: by what follows it is probable Jonah was cast into the sea far from shore.
or heart of the seas, but more literally and strictly in the midst of the seas, than that Eze 27:4.
either the mighty rivers which run into that sea, or the floods, the mighty currents, which the rolling sea and winds with tide made.
the surges of the sea, which explains what before he called the floods. Here is an elegant description of the violence and horror of the seas into which Jonah was cast, which tossed his body, and signified the terrors wherewith his soul was distressed from God’s immediate hand, as Psa 42:7.
Jonah seeth God’s hand and sovereignty in all this, intimating that he prayed for what he knew his God could do for him.