Jonah 2:6

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.

I went down {H3381} to the bottoms {H7095} of the mountains {H2022}; the earth {H776} with her bars {H1280} was about me for ever {H5769}: yet hast thou brought up {H5927} my life {H2416} from corruption {H7845}, O LORD {H3068} my God {H430}.

I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains, to a land whose bars would close me in forever; but you brought me up alive from the pit, ADONAI, my God!

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!

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.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 30:3 (8 votes)

    O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Psalms 16:10 (5 votes)

    For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  • Proverbs 8:25 (3 votes)

    Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

  • Proverbs 8:29 (3 votes)

    When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

  • Isaiah 38:17 (3 votes)

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

  • Psalms 104:6 (2 votes)

    Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

  • Psalms 104:8 (2 votes)

    They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.