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Jonah 2:5

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

  • Jonah 2:5 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 2:5. _THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT_ EVEN _TO THE SOUL_] So as to seem to deprive me of life. I had no hope left. _THE WEEDS WERE WRAPPED ABOUT MY HEAD._] This may be understood literally...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT EVEN TO THE SOUL - Words which to others were figures of distress (Psalms 69:2. See the introduction to Jonah), “the waters have come even to the soul,” were to Jonah rea...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance _ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _ 2. The deliverance (John 2:10) John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered u...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WATERS. Compare Psalms 69:1. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. DEPTH. an abyss. WEEDS. floating sea-weeds....

  • Jonah 2:5 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _compassed me about_ It would be better, perhaps, to render SURROUNDED ME, in order to show that this is a different word from that in Jonah 2:3, and then in the second clause of this verse, where the...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Charles Box Commentaries

    _LOOKING TOWARD GOD'S HOLY TEMPLE -- JONAH 2:4-6:_ Jonah realized that he had left God's holy presence. He promised that he would look again toward God's holy temple and remember Him. Jonah said that...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE WATERS COMPASSED ME, &C.— Jonah, as we have before observed, speaks this in the bowels of the fish; therefore they seem to mistake the matter, who say that Jonah speaks this in the midst of the se...

  • Jonah 2:5 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRAYER OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:1-6 1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly. 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jeh...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT, EVEN TO THE SOUL - i:e., threatening to extin...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror inspired by the sea in the minds of...

  • Jonah 2:5 - EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE WATERS. — See reference in margin. THE WEEDS WERE WRAPPED ABOUT MY HEAD. — This graphic touch is quite original. The figure of overwhelming waters is a common one in Hebrew song to represent some...

  • Jonah 2:5 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jonah 2:6]_ אֲפָפ֤וּנִי מַ֨יִם֙ עַד ־נֶ֔פֶשׁ תְּהֹ֖ום יְסֹבְבֵ֑נִי ס֖וּף חָב֥וּשׁ לְ רֹאשִֽׁי׃...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1 AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish thre...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS John 1:17; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To p...

  • Jonah 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...

  • Jonah 2:5 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Eyes, in a sort of despair, like the psalmist, xxx. 23. Yet he presently resumes fresh confidence in God, notwithstanding the greatness of his offences. --- Temple. He went to Jerusalem, like other g...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...

  • Jonah 2:5 - John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Jonah the Penitent I. INTRODUCTION A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the "great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning - but before we do, I woul...

  • Jonah 2:5 - John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here in many words Jonah relates how many things had happened to him, which were calculated to overwhelm his mind with terror and to drive him far from God, and to take away every desire for prayer. B...

  • Jonah 2:5 - John Darby's Synopsis

    We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among the...

  • Jonah 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT, [EVEN] TO THE SOUL,.... Either when he was first cast into the sea, which almost suffocated him, and just ready to take away his life, could not breathe for them, as is...

  • Jonah 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. Ver. 5. _The waters compassed me about, even to the soul_] That is, _usque ad...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then I said, I am cast out_, &c. “My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou wouldest cast me out of thy protection; yet, upon recollecting mys...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From this we see, as Lut...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sen...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The former part of this verse seems to be an ingeminating of what was said JONAH 2:3, and bears the self-same meaning and interpretation. THE WATERS; literally, the waters of the sea; metaphorically,...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 2:5 waters H4325 surrounded H661 (H8804) soul H5315 deep H8415 around H5437 (H8779) Weeds H5488 around H2280 (H8803) head H7218 Psalms 40:2, Psalms 69:1-2; Lamentations 3:54...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restit...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

    JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly._ What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....

  • Jonah 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._ THE RETURN TO GOD The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...

  • Jonah 2:5 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. JONAH 2:5] This strophe opens like the first, sets forth the peril of death, and describes the thought of miraculous deliverance. SURROUNDED] Pressed even to the soul (Psalms 69:2; Ps...

  • Jonah 2:5 - The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JONAH 2:1 Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. JONAH 2:1 1_. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which he sees...

  • Jonah 2:5 - The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the st...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1), Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Lamentations 3:54; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 69:1; Psalms 69:2...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION Jonah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...

  • Jonah 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The weeds — It seems to mean, my case was as hopeless as that of a man wrapt about with weeds in the depth of the sea....

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