Jonah 2:3

"For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas,

And the flood was round about me;

All thy waves and thy billows passed over me."

"Thou didst cast me ..." Jonah here attributed to God the action of the mariners who cast him overboard, because it was upon God's command as given through Jonah that they did this.

"And the flood was round about me ..." The Hebrew word here for flood means literally river.

"This may mean "the current" as in Psalms 24:2, which in the Mediterranean sea flows west to east, and, impinging on the Syrian coast, turns north; or it may have reference to the notion familiar to us in Homer, which regarded the ocean as a river."[22]

"Thy waves and thy billows ..." Thus Jonah acknowledged God's hand in the dreadful punishment he received.