Jona 2:6

Lutherbibel

Ich sank hinunter zu der Berge Gründen, die Erde hatte mich verriegelt ewiglich; aber du hast mein Leben aus dem Verderben geführt, HERR, mein Gott.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Die Wasser umringten mich bis an die Seele, die Tiefe umgab mich, Meergras umschlang mein Haupt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bottoms: Heb. cuttings off

mountains: Deuteronomy 32:22, Psalms 65:6, Psalms 104:6, Psalms 104:8, Isaiah 40:12, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:10

the earth: Job 38:4-11, Proverbs 8:25-29

yet: Psalms 16:10, Isaiah 38:17, Acts 13:33-37

corruption: or, the pit, Job 33:24, Job 33:28, Psalms 30:3, Psalms 30:9, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 143:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:26 - everlasting hills Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Job 18:13 - strength Psalms 18:15 - foundations Psalms 18:16 - many waters Psalms 40:2 - brought Psalms 71:20 - shalt bring Psalms 88:4 - counted Psalms 118:18 - chastened Acts 2:27 - to see

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I went down to the bottom of the mountains,.... Which are in the midst of the sea, whither the fish carried him, and where the waters are deep; or the bottom of rocks and promontories on the shore of the sea; and such vast rocks hanging over the sea, whose bottoms were in it, it seems are on the shore of Joppa, near to which Jonah was cast into the sea, as Egesippus f relates:

the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever; that is, the earth with its cliffs and rocks on the seashore, which are as bars to the sea, that it cannot overflow it; these were such bars to Jonah, that could he have got clear of the fish's belly, and attempted to swim to shore, he could never get to it, or over these bars, the rocks and cliffs, which were so steep and high:

yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God; notwithstanding these difficulties, which were insuperable by human power, and these seeming impossibilities of, deliverance; yet the Lord brought him out of the fish's belly, as out of a grave, the pit of corruption, and where he must otherwise have lain and rotted, and freed his soul from those terrors which would have destroyed him; and by this also we learn, that this form of words was composed after he came to dry land: herein likewise he was a type of Christ, who, though laid in the grave, was not left there so long as to see corruption, Psalms 16:10.

f "De excidio", Urb. Hieros. l. 3. c. 20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I went down to the bottoms, (literally “the cuttings off”) of the mountains - , the “roots” as the Chaldee and we call them, the hidden rocks, which the mountains push out, as it were, into the sea, and in which they end. Such hidden rocks extend along the whole length of that coast. These were his dungeon walls; “the earth, her bars,” those long submarine reefs of rock, his prison bars, “were around” him “forever:” the seaweeds were his chains: and, even thus, when things were at their uttermost, “Thou hast brought up my life from corruption,” to which his body would have fallen a prey, had not God sent the fish to deliver him. The deliverance for which be thanks God is altogether past: “Thou broughtest me up.” He calls “the” Lord, “my” God, because, being the God of all, He was especially his God, for whom He had done things of such marvelous love. God loves each soul which He has made with the same infinite love with which He loves all. Whence Paul says of Jesus Galatians 2:20, “Who loved me and gave Himself for me.” He loves each, with the same undivided love, as if he had created none besides; and He allows each to say, “My God,” as if the Infinite God belonged wholly to each. So would He teach us the oneness of Union between the soul which God loves and which admits His love, and Himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

VerseJonah 2:6. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains — This also may be literally understood. The fish followed the slanting base of the mountains, till they terminated in a plain at the bottom of the great deep.

The earth with her bars — He represents himself as a prisoner in a dungeon, closed in with bars which he could not remove, and which at first appeared to be for ever, i.e., the place where his life must terminate.

Yet hast thou brought up my life — The substance of this poetic prayer was composed while in the fish's belly; but afterwards the prophet appears to have thrown it into its present poetic form, and to have added some circumstances, such as that before us; for he now speaks of his deliverance from this imminent danger of death. "Thou hast brought up my life from corruption."