5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. …
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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.
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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