Jonah 2:6

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. shall burn: or, hath burned shall consume: or, hath consumed

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. He...: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. hast...: Heb. knowest understanding Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; foundations: Heb. sockets fastened: Heb. made to sink? When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake...: or, established my decree upon it And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? thy...: Heb. the pride of thy waves

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. a ransom: or, an atonement

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. mercies: Gr. holy, or just things: which word the Septuagint in many places, uses for that which is in the Hebrew, mercies Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: after...: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. fields: or, open places the highest...: or, the chief part When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: a compass: or, a circle When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? a measure: Heb. a tierce

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit shall...: Heb. shall not half their days