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Jonah 2:3-5
Easy-to-Read Version
Jonah 2:3-5
Easy-to-Read Version
3 “You threw me into the sea.
Your powerful waves splashed over me.
I went down, down into the deep sea.
The water was all around me.
4 Then I thought, ‘Now I must go where you cannot see me,’
but I continued looking to your holy Temple for help.
5 “The seawater closed over me.
The water covered my mouth,
and I could not breathe.[a]
I went down, down into the deep sea.
Seaweed wrapped around my head.
Footnotes
- Jonah 2:5 mouth, and I could not breathe Or “The water surrounded me to my soul.” The Hebrew word for soul also means “life,” “self,” or “appetite,” and “throat” or “mouth.”
Jonah 2:3-5
New International Version
Jonah 2:3-5
New International Version
3 You hurled me into the depths,(A)
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves(B) and breakers
swept over me.(C)
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;(D)
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’(E)
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(F)
Footnotes
- Jonah 2:5 Or waters were at my throat
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