Jonah 2:5 - Exposition

Compassed me about . Not the same word as in Jonah 2:3 . Septuagint, περιεχίθη μοι "was poured around me." Even to the soul; so as to reach his life (comp. Psalms 18:5 ; Psalms 69:1 , Psalms 69:2 ; Lamentations 3:54 ). The depth closed me round about. The verb is the lame as in Jonah 2:3 , translated there, "compassed me about" Vulgate, abyssus vallavit me . The weeds ( suph ) ; seaweed. Jonah sank to the bottom before he was swallowed by the fish. The LXX . omits the word. The Vulgate gives pelagus , which is probably derived from the fact of the Red Sea being called "the Sea of Suph," the term being thence applied to any sea.