For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Thou hadst (didst) cast me into the deep ... all thy billows and thy waves passed over me - "the deep," literally, the eddying deep. Jonah recognizes the source whence his sufferings came. It was no mere chance, but the hand of God which sent them. Compare Job's similar recognition of God's hand in calamities (Job 1:21; Job 2:10); and David's, who, when Shimei cursed him, and Abishai desired, in consequence, to kill him, said, "Let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? ... It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing" (2 Samuel 16:5-11).