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.
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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. …
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. …
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. …
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 cha…
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