Jonah 2:5
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.In other versions
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
ASV
And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
BBE
The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
DBY
The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
WEB
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
YLT
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
ENG
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.
WBT
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
BSB
In context
3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.