“For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jonah 2 contains 10 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.