John Trapp on Jonah 2:5

Verſ. 5. The waters compaſſed me about even to the ſoul] that is, uſque ad animae deliquium, till I laboured for life, and was as good as gone.

The depth cloſed me round about] ſee the Note on verſ. 3. and further obſerve, that Gods dear children may fall into deſperate and deadly dangers, ſee Pſal. 18.3. and 88.3. & 116.3. And this for 1. prevention, 2. purgation, 3. probation, 4. preparations to further both mercies and duties. Let us not therefore cenſure our ſelves or others as hated of God, becauſe greatly diſtreſſed; but incourage our ſelves in them, as did David at Ziklag, 1 Sach. 30.6. The right of the Lord ſhall change all this.

Flebile principium melior fortuna ſequetur.

The weeds were wrapt about mine head] Alga as Alligando. The weeds which the fiſh had devoured, or whereunto the fiſh, wherein I was, had dived and lain down amongſt them. Or this might befal Jonah in the bottom of the ſea, before the fiſh had ſwallowed him: for weeds eaſily wrap about thoſe that ſwim, or are drowned.