5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.


In Context

2 He said, |I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

3 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.

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

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

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.

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

Jonah 2:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.