Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jonah 2:6

"I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God." — Jonah 2:6 (ASV)

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;—

To the very roots and foundations of the mountains, where the big jagged rocks made huge buttresses for the hills above: I went down to the bottom of the mountains;—

The earth with her bars was about me for ever:

Down went the fish, as deep as he could go: and, of course, down went Jonah too, and he might well imagine that he was in a vast prison from which there was no way of escape.

Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

And, dear friend, God can bring you up, however low you may have gone. Though, in your own feelings, you feel as if you had gone so low that you could not go any lower, God can, in answer to prayer, bring you up again. O despairing one, take heart, and be comforted by this story of Jonah! God is dealing with you as he was with him. There may be a great fish, but there is a great God as well.

There may be a deep sea, but there is an almighty God to bring you up out of it.