Jonah 2:5
The kwaters *compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
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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 102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Psalms 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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.
Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 40:1 I WAITED patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
*:
compassed-surrounded.
The former part of this verse seems to be an ingeminating of what was said Jon 2:3, and bears the self-same meaning and interpretation.
literally, the waters of the sea; metaphorically, afflictions; mystically, temptations; these last arising from his own guilt, and from the tokens of God’s displeasure against him in so unusual a manner.
to the endangering his life, and were forerunners (as he apprehended) of worse miseries, the foretastes of an eternal damnation: it was a miracle of providence to preserve my life, it was no less wonder of free grace to save my soul.
he was carried to the bottom of the sea, lay as in the deepest hole of the sea.
not immediately, as some conjecture, by the fish pulling them from the bottom of the sea and swallowing them down, where they wrapped Jonah’s head; but mediately, when the fish swam amidst these: or rather it is a comparative speech; I was no more likely to escape drowning, than a man in the depth of the sea, wrapped up in, and held fast down by, the weeds in the bottom of the sea.