Jonah 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I went down, the fish carried him down, to the bottoms of the mountains; as deep in the sea as are the bottoms of the mountains, or into those depths out of which might be supposed that mountains were thence drawn out by the roots; an elegant description of fathomless depths, whirlpools of the seas. The earth with her bars was about me for ever; I seemed to be imprisoned where the bars that secured me were as great and durable as the rocks which they were made of. Yet, notwithstanding all these insuperable difficulties, and my own fears, hast thou brought up; by what was first my danger thou hast wonderfully secured me, what I thought should have been my grave was made a safety to me; by the fish Jonah is in due time fairly and safely set on shore. My life; his life of nature; his life of comfort, and peace, and joy too. From corruption, or the pit; a description of the stale of the dead, whose bodies turn to putrefaction and stench. O Lord; O almighty and eternal Being, Lord and Sovereign over all. My God; mine, saith Jonah, by particular choice, faith, and hope, whom I had served and should not have disobeyed, to whom I prayed, who hath pardoned, whom I will adore, obey, and love for ever.

Jonah 2:6

6 I went down to the bottomsb of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.