Jonah 2:5

Lamentations 3:54; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 69:1; Psalms 69:2

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The waters compassed me about even to the soul - Words which to others were figures of distress ( Psalms 69:2 . See the introduction to Jonah), “...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Thanksgiving for Deliverance. This psalm is a thanksgiving for deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have followed Jon...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

waters. Compare Psalms 69:1 . soul. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13. depth . an abyss. weeds . floating sea-weeds.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here in many words Jonah relates how many things had happened to him, which were calculated to overwhelm his mind with terror and to drive him...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. The waters compassed me abo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The waters compassed me, &c.— Jonah, as we have before observed, speaks this in the bowels of the fish; therefore they seem to mistake the matt...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. The waters compassed...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

His Prayer of Thanksgiving This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very pl...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Even to the soul ] cp. Psalms 69:1 . The meaning is that the waters so press in that life itself is threatened. The weeds ] Floating sea-weed en...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The waters. — See reference in margin. The weeds were wrapped about my head. — This graphic touch is quite original. The figure of overwhelming...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1-10 AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Prayer from the Depths John 1:17 ; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronic...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul ,.... Either when he was first cast into the sea, which almost suffocated him, and just ready to t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. Ver. 5. The waters compa...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then I said, I am cast out , &c. “My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou wouldest ca...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. B. C. 840....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The former part of this verse seems to be an ingeminating of what was said Jonah 2:3 , and bears the self-same meaning and interpretation. The wa...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jonah's Prayer Of Repentance And Gratitude ( Jonah 2:1-10 ). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, pro...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“The waters compassed me about, Even to the soul, The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.” But his awful experience ha...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . Jonah 2:5 ] This strophe opens like the first, sets forth the peril of death, and describes the thought of miraculous delivera...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Jonah 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for differ...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jonah 2:1 . Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly. What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jonah 2:4 . Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight. After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly. The return to God The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jonah 2:1-32 Part I. JONAH 'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE . Jonah 2:1-32 1 . Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a pr...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jonah's Prayer of Thanksgiving and Praise. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the d...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul, so that he was ready to despair of his life, Cf Psalms 18:5 ; Psalms 69:2 ; the depth closed me r...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Jonah, in the School of Affliction Jonah 2:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The weeds — It seems to mean, my case was as hopeless as that of a man wrapt about with weeds in the depth of the sea.

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

Related Commentaries of Jonah 2:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jonah 2:5