Jonah 2:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

⁵The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

Jonah 2:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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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. 5)

4. cast out from thy sight--that is, from Thy favorable regard. A just retribution on one who had fled “from the presence of the Lord” (Jon 1:3). Now that he has got his desire, he feels it to be his bitterest sorrow to be deprived of God’s presence, which once he regarded as a burden, and from which he desired to escape. He had turned his back on God; so God turned His back on him, making his sin…