Jonah 2:6

Jonah 2:6

4 ^aThen I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again ^btoward Your holy temple.’

5 The ^awaters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

6 I went down to the¹ moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my ^alife from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

7 “When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
^aAnd my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

8 “Those who regard ^aworthless idols
Forsake their own¹ Mercy.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains - This also may be literally understood. The fish followed the slanting base of the mountains, till they terminated in a plain at the bottom of the great deep.

The earth with her bars - He represents himself as a prisoner in a dungeon, closed in with bars which he could not remove, and which at first appeared to be for ever, i.e., the place where his life must terminate.

Yet hast thou brought up my life - The substance of this poetic prayer was composed while in the fish' s belly; but afterwards the prophet appears to have thrown it into its present poetic form, and to have added some circumstances, such as that before us; for he now speaks of his deliverance from this imminent danger of death. "Thou hast brought up my life from corruption."

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