Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jonah 2:3

"For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me." — Jonah 2:3 (ASV)

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;

The word Jonah used implies that God had violently cast him away into the deep. Cast me not off, prayed David, but here is a man who says that God did cast him out like a thing flung overboard into the vast deep: Thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;.

And the floods compassed me about:

"They rolled all over me, beneath me, above me, around me; 'The floods compassed me about:'" –

All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Jonah had evidently read his Bible; at least, he had read Psalm 42, for he quotes it here. It is a blessed thing to have the Bible in your mind and heart so that, wherever you may be, you do not need to turn to the Book because you have the Book inside you. Here is a man inside a fish with a Book inside of him; and it was the Book inside of him that brought him out from the fish again.