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Jonah 2:6

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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.

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Verse 6. Soul, so that I was in danger of being suffocated. Psalms 68:2. Calmet.—Sea. Hebrew “weeds entangled,” and so forth Bible.—The Mediterranean has a great deal of sea weed. He speaks of the time before he was swallowed up by the fish.

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