World English Bible
Jonah 2:6
“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.”
Verse in context — Jonah 2
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I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.
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The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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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.
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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
About Jonah
God’s mercy shown to Nineveh through Jonah’s reluctant mission.
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