OLD TESTAMENT

Jonah 2:5

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5

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

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Verse 5. Eyes, in a sort of despair, like the psalmist, 30:23. Yet he presently resumes fresh confidence in God, notwithstanding the greatness of his offences.—Temple. He went to Jerusalem, like other good Israelites.

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