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Jonah 2:5
Jonah 2:5 is verse 5 of Jonah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the 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.
World English Bible
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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Jonah 2:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
6 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!
7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
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.
Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.