Jonah 2:3
Good News Translation
You threw me down into the depths, to the very bottom of the sea, where the waters were all around me, and all your mighty waves rolled over me.

New Revised Standard Version
You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

Contemporary English Version
You threw me down to the bottom of the sea. The water was churning all around; I was completely covered by your mighty waves.

New American Bible
You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, and the flood enveloped me; All your breakers and your billows passed over me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

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And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

thou.

Jonah 1:12-16 And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled. . . .

Psalm 69:1,2,14,15 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 88:5-8 Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. . . .

Lamentations 3:54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

midst.

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Context
Jonah's Prayer
2And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. 3And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.4And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood hast compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:5
For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Lamentations 3:54
Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Jonah 2:2
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