the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Jonah 2:5
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The water engulfed me up to the neck;the watery depths overcame me;seaweed was wrapped around my head.
The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
The waters compassed mee about euen to the soule; the depth closed mee round about; the weedes were wrapt about my head.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head
"Water encompassed me to the point of death. The deep flowed around me, Seaweed was wrapped around my head.
The waters of the sea closed around my throat. The deep sea was all around me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
"The waters surrounded me, to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, Seaweed was wrapped around my head.
The waters compassed me about vnto the soule: the depth closed me rounde about, and the weedes were wrapt about mine head.
"Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, Weeds were wrapped around my head.
Water encompassed me to my very soul.The great deep surrounded me,Weeds were wrapped around my head.
The waters engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
I was almost drowned by the swirling waters that surrounded me. Seaweed had wrapped around my head.
I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight.' But I will again look at your holy temple.
The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters engulfed me, even to the soul; the depth closed me round about, my head lay at the bottom of the sea.
The water came over me and choked me; the sea covered me completely, and seaweed wrapped around my head.
The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
Waters encompassed me, even to my soul; the depth closed around me; seaweed was clinging to my head.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.
The waters compassed me euen vnto the soule, the deapth closed me on euery side, and the weedes were wrapt about my head.
And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
Watris cumpassiden me `til to my soule, depnesse enuyrownede me, the see hilide myn heed.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters encompassed me, [even] to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.
"I sank beneath the waves, and the waters closed over me. Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
Waters closed in over me. The sea was all around me. Weeds were around my head.
The waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head
The waters, encompassed me, to the peril of my life, The roaring deep, enveloped me, - The sea-weed, was wrapped about my head:
(2-6) The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.
The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
The waters compased me, euen to the very soule: the depe laye aboute me, and the wedes were wrapte aboute myne heade.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 40:2, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Lamentations 3:54
Reciprocal: Psalms 18:16 - many waters Jeremiah 18:8 - that nation
Cross-References
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)
So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.
Eve gave birth again to Cain's brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a farmer.
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."
He sends rain all over the earth and waters the fields.
You make the grass grow to feed the animals. You provide plants for the crops we grow— the plants that give us food from the earth.
He brings the clouds from the other side of the earth. He sends the lightning and the rain, and he opens the doors to release the winds.
Foreign idols don't have the power to bring rain. The sky does not have the power to send down showers of rain. You, the Lord our God, are our only hope. You are the one who made all these things.
Gill's Notes on the 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 the case of a man drowning; or these were the waters the fish drew into its belly, in such large quantities, that they compassed him about, even to the endangering of his life there. So the Targum,
"the waters surrounded me unto death.''
In this Jonah was a type of Christ in his afflictions and sorrows, which were so many and heavy, that he is said to be "exceeding sorrowful", or surrounded with sorrow, "even unto death", Matthew 26:38; see also Psalms 69:1;
the depth closed me round about; the great deep, the waters of the sea, both when he fell into it, and while in the belly of the fish: thus also Christ his antitype came into deep waters, where there was no standing, and where floods of sin, and of ungodly men, and of divine wrath, overflowed him; see Psalms 18:4;
the weeds were wrapped about my head; the sea weeds, of which there are great quantities in it, which grow at the bottom of it, to which Jonah came, and from whence he rose up again, before swallowed by the fish; or these weeds were drawn into the belly of the fish, along with the water which it took in, and were wrapped about the head of the prophet as he lay there; or the fish went down with him into the bottom of the sea, and lay among those weeds; and so they may be said to be wrapped about him, he being there, as follows. The Targum is,
"the sea of Suph being over my head;''
the same with the Red sea, which is so called, Psalms 106:9; and elsewhere, and that from the weeds that were in it; and R. Japhet, as Aben Ezra observes, says the sea of Suph is mixed with the sea of Joppa; that is, as a learned man e observes, by means of the river Rhinocorura, through which the lake of Sirbon mingles with the great sea; and which lake itself is so called from the weeds in it; yea, was anciently called Suph, and the sea of Suph, or "mare Scirpeum", hence Sirbon: and the same writer thinks that the father of Andromede, said to be devoured by a whale about Joppa, had his name of Cepheus from hence.
e Texelius, Phoenix, l. 3. c. 6. p. 242, 243, 244, 228, 229.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 realities. Sunk in the deep seas, the water strove to penetrate at every opening. To draw breath, which sustains life, to him would have been death. There was but a breath between him and death. “The deep encompassed me,” encircling, meeting him wherever he turned, holding him imprisoned on every side, so that there was no escape, and, if there otherwise had been, he was bound motionless, “the weed was wrapped around my head, like a grave-band.” “The weed” was the well known seaweed, which, even near the surface of the sea where man can struggle, twines round him, a peril even to the strong swimmer, entangling him often the more, the more he struggles to extricate himself from it. But to one below, powerless to struggle, it was as his winding sheet.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 also. He found himself in the fish's stomach, together with sea weeds, and such like marine substances, which the fish had taken for its aliment.
