John Trapp on Jonah 2:6

Verſ. 6. I went down to the bottomes of the montains] that is, of the promontories, or rocks of the ſea, where the waters are deepeſt. Thus Mercer after Kimchi. The channels of waters were ſeen, and the foundations of the world were diſcovered, Pſal. 18.15. The mountains are ſaid to be under water, Prov. 8.25. becauſe their foundations are there placed.

the earth with her barres was about me for over] As if reſolved there to keep me cloſe priſoner; that though the fiſh had diſgorged me, yet I ſhould never have got to land. The ſhores are ſet by God as barres to keep the ſea within his bounds, Job 38.8, 10, 11. Jer. 5.22. Here then all the creatures ſeemed to ſet againſt poor Jonas, and (which was more then all) the Creatour too: ſo that he might ſigh and ſay, as in the Poet, In me omnis terrae que avium que mariſ que rapina eſt:Martial. Forſitan & coeli —

Yet haſt thou brought up my life from corruption] i. e. from the place where I was likely to have laine and rotted. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Cum duplicantur lateres, venit Moſes: when things are at the worſt God appeareth, as it were out of an engine. In the mount will the Lord be ſeen Ezek. 37.11. &c. 2 King. 19.3. he ſtayes ſo long ſometimes that he hardly findes faith on earth Luk. 18. and yet comes at laſt to the relief of his poor people: viz. when they are ripe and ready for it. He is a God of judgement, he knowes how and when to deale forth his favours: and even waiteth to be gracious Eſay 30.22. See Eſa. 28.24, 25, 27, 28.

O Lord my God] ſc. by the meane and merit of thy ſon, in whom alone it is, that thou Lord art my God, and that I can call thee Abba Father. It is well obſerved by an Interpreter, that in this ſhort hiſtory of Jonah are all things contained, which may make to the ſound and ſaving knowledge of God and his will, of our ſelves alſo and our duties.