SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:6
Descendí a las raíces de los montes; La tierra echó sus cerraduras sobre mí para siempre; Mas tú sacaste mi vida de la sepultura, oh SEÑOR Dios mío.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:6
Verse 6. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains] This also may be literally understood. The fish followed the slanting base of the mountains, till they terminated in a plain at the bottom of the great deep. The earth with her bars] He represents himself as a prisoner in a dungeon, closed in with bars which he could not remove, and which at first appeared to be for ever, i.e., the place where his life must terminate.
Yet hast thou brought up my life] The substance of this poetic prayer was composed while in the fish's belly; but afterwards the prophet appears to have thrown it into its present poetic form, and to have added some circumstances, such as that before us; for he now speaks of his deliverance from this imminent danger of death. "Thou hast brought up my life from corruption.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. I went down to the bottom of the mountains , etc.] Which are in the midst of the sea, whither the fish carried him, and where the waters are deep; or the bottom of rocks and promontories on the shore of the sea; and such vast rocks hanging over the sea, whose bottoms were in it, it seems are on the shore of Joppa, near to which Jonah was cast into the sea, as Egesippus relates: the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever ; that is, the earth with its cliffs and rocks on the seashore, which are as bars to the sea, that it cannot overflow it; these were such bars to Jonah, that could he have got clear of the fish’s belly, and attempted to swim to shore, he could never get to it, or over these bars, the rocks and cliffs, which were so steep and high: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God ; notwithstanding these difficulties, which were insuperable by human power, and these seeming impossibilities of, deliverance; yet the Lord brought him out of the fish’s belly, as out of a grave, the pit of corruption, and where he must otherwise have lain and rotted, and freed his soul from those terrors which would have destroyed him; and by this also we learn, that this form of words was composed after he came to dry land: herein likewise he was a type of Christ, who, though laid in the grave, was not left there so long as to see corruption, ( Psalm 16:10).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God' good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men ma shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with God. To whom he prayed; to the Lord his God. This encourages eve backsliders to return. What his prayer was. This seems to relate his experience and reflections, then and afterwards, rather than to be the form or substance of his prayer. Jonah reflects on the earnestness of his prayer, and God's readiness to hear and answer. If we would ge good by our troubles, we must notice the hand of God in them. He ha wickedly fled from the presence of the Lord, who might justly take his Holy Spirit from him, never to visit him more. Those only ar miserable, whom God will no longer own and favour. But though he wa perplexed, yet not in despair. Jonah reflects on the favour of God to him, when he sought to God, and trusted in him in his distress. He warns others, and tells them to keep close to God. Those who forsak their own duty, forsake their own mercy; those who run away from the work of their place and day, run away from the comfort of it. As far a a believer copies those who observe lying vanities, he forsakes his ow mercy, and lives below his privileges. But Jonah's experienc encourages others, in all ages, to trust in God, as the God of salvation.
Original Hebrew
לקצבי 7095 הרים 2022 ירדתי 3381 הארץ 776 ברחיה 1280 בעדי 1157 לעולם 5769 ותעל 5927 משׁחת 7845 חיי 2416 יהוה 3068 אלהי׃ 430
