Holy Scripture
Jonah 2:3
A church father on this verse
“"For you had cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about." LXX: 'you cast me into the deep of the heart from the sea, and the waves surrounded me'. The interpretation of the person of Jonah is not difficult: from the moment when he was closed in the stomach of the whale and found…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, Even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.
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In context
1Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.
2And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
— Jonah 2:3 —
4Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: All thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.
5And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?