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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
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The Prison of the Deep
Commentators explain that Jonah's language—"bottoms of the mountains" and "earth with its bars"—paints a picture of ultimate hopelessness. He felt he was at the very foundations of the world, locked in a permanent, inescapable prison near the realm of the dead. This vivid imagery highlights the sheer impossibility of his situation and the miraculous nature of God's rescue.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I went down to the bottoms (literally “the cuttings off”) of the mountains—the “roots,” as the Chaldee and we call them, the hidden…
19th Century
Anglican
Bottoms of the mountains.— Literally, ends or cuttings off, as in the margin. So the Vulgate extrema montium…
Baptist
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;—
To the very roots and foundations of the mountains, where the big jagged rocks m…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here, Jonah relates in many words how many things had happened to him, which were designed to overwhelm his mind with terror, drive him far from Go…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I went down to the bottom of the mountains Which are in the midst of the sea, where the fish carried him, and where …
Observe when Jonah prayed. He prayed when he was in trouble, under the signs of God's displeasure against him for sin. When we are in affliction, w…
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