World English Bible

Jonah 2:5

“The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.”

Verse in context — Jonah 2

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

God’s mercy shown to Nineveh through Jonah’s reluctant mission.