Jonah 2:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Jonah 2:5

3 ^aFor You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
^bAll Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

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.

9 But I will ^asacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have ^bvowed.
^cSalvation is of the ^dLord.”

10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Verse Comparison: Jonah 2:5

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American Standard Version
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

Amplified® Bible
The waters compassed me about, even to [the extinction of] life; the abyss surrounded me, the seaweed was wrapped about my head.

Contemporary English Version
I was almost drowned by the swirling waters that surrounded me. Seaweed had wrapped around my head.

Darby English Version
The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.

Good News Bible
The water came over me and choked me; the sea covered me completely, and seaweed wrapped around my head.

King James Version
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

New American Standard Bible
"Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, Weeds were wrapped around my head.

New International Version
The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.

New King James Version
The waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
" Water encompassed me to the point of death The great deep engulfed me, Weeds wrapped around my head.

Revised Standard Version
The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head

Young's Literal Translation
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

New English Translation
Water engulfed me up to my neck;¹ the deep ocean² surrounded me; seaweed³ was wrapped around my head.

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