6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
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O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: …
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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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