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


In Context

2 And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

3 When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

4 And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

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

6 To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

7 In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.