Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 2:5

5 The waters compassed me about even to the soul : the depth closed me round about , the weeds were wrapt about my head .

Litterally the waters o[illegible: 1 letter] the Sea, metaphorically afflictions, mystically Temptations, these last arising from his own guilt, and from the tokens of Gods displeasure against him in so unusual a manner.

To the endangering his Life, and were forerunners (as he apprehended) of worse miseries, the fore[illegible: 1 letter]asts of an eternal damnation, 'twas a miracle of providence to preserve my Life, 'twas no lesse wonder of free Grace to save my Soul.

He was carried to the bottom of the Sea, lay as in the deepest hole of the Sea.

Not immediately as some conjecture by the Fish pulling them from the bottom of the Sea and swallowing them down, where they wrapt Ionahs head, but mediately when the Fish swam amidst these, or rather it is a comparative speech, I was no more likely to escape drowning, then a man in the depth of the Sea wrapt up in, and held fast down by, the Weeds in the bottom of the Sea.

The former part of the 5 verse seems to be an ingeminating of what was said ver. 3. and bears the self same meaning and interpretation.

Marginal references: Psal. 69.1.