Jonah 2:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For 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.

Jonah 2:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Psalms 69:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. …
Psalms 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. …
Psalms 88:5-8
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

God and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on Jonah’s side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work; but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation begins on God’s side. In the close of the foregoing chapter we found God returning to Jonah in a way of mercy, delivering him from going down to the pit, having found a ransom; in this chapt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

2. His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in Jon 2:2, Psa 120:1; in Jon 2:3, Psa 42:7; in Jon 2:4, Psa 31:22; in Jon 2:5, Psa 69:1; in Jon 2:7, Psa 142:3; 18:6; in Jon 2:8, Psa 31:6; in Jon 2:9, Psa 116:17, 18, and 3:8. Jonah, an inspired man, thus attests both the antiqui…