Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The waters compassed me about even to the soul - So as to seem to deprive me of life. I had no hope left.
The weeds were wrapped about my head - This may be understood literally also. He found himself in the fish' s stomach, together with sea weeds, and such like marine substances, which the fish had taken for its aliment.
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