Jonah 2:6
4 At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
5 The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
8 Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
- BLB
- To the bases of the mountains I went down; the earth with her bars [was] behind me forever. And You brought up my life from the pit, O YHWH my God.
- ÅB
- til fjellenes grunnvoller sank jeg ned, jordens bommer var lukket etter meg for evig. Men du førte mitt liv opp av graven, Herre min Gud!
- OTB
- Jeg sank til fjellenes røtter;
jorden med sine stenger lukket seg over meg for alltid.
Men Du, Herre min Gud, førte mitt liv opp fra graven. - B1930
- til fjellenes grunnvoller sank jeg ned, jordens bommer var lukket efter mig for evig. Men du førte mitt liv op av graven, Herre min Gud!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 30:3
O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
Read in contextPsalms 16:10
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:22
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Read in contextPsalms 143:7
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
Read in contextProverbs 8:25–29
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
Read in contextPsalms 104:8
the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
Read in context