Jonah 2:3

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.