Matthew Poole Commentary - Jonah 2:3 - 2:3

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jonah 2:3 - 2:3


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For: this introduceth the account of his distress, mentioned Jon_2:2.



Thou, the Almighty, offended by my frowardness and obstinacy,



hadst cast me into the deep; though the mariners’ hands heaved me overboard, it was thy hand that did it, and pressed me sore. The deep; the bottom of the sea: by what follows it is probable Jonah was cast into the sea far from shore.



In the midst of the seas, or heart of the seas, but more literally and strictly in the midst of the seas, than that Eze_27:4.



The floods; either the mighty rivers which run into that sea, or the floods, the mighty currents, which the rolling sea and winds with tide made.



All thy billows and thy waves passed over me; the surges of the sea, which explains what before he called the floods. Here is an elegant description of the violence and horror of the seas into which Jonah was cast, which tossed his body, and signified the terrors wherewith his soul was distressed from God’s immediate hand, as Psa_42:7.



Thy waves: Jonah seeth God’s hand and sovereignty in all this, intimating that he prayed for what he knew his God could do for him.