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Jonah 2:5

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

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  1. Jonah 2:3

    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.

  2. Jonah 2:4

    Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  3. Jonah 2:6

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

  4. Jonah 2:7

    When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

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