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Jonah 2:3
Jonah 2:3 is verse 3 of Jonah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
King James Version
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
World English Bible
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
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Jonah 2:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
2 saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jonah 1:12“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
Jonah 1:13Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
Jonah 1:14So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
Jonah 1:15At this, they picked up Jonah and cast him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.
Jonah 1:16Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.
Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
Psalms 69:2I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
Psalms 88:5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.