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# General Information:
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This is a continuation of Jonah's prayer that started in [Jonah 2:2](./01.md).
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# The waters
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"The waters" refers to the sea.
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# my neck
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Some versions understand the Hebrew word in this expression to mean "my life." In that interpretation, the waters were about to take away Jonah's life.
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# the deep was all around me
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"the deep water was all around me"
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# seaweed
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grass that grows in the sea
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# the earth with its bars closed upon me forever
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Jonah used a metaphor to compare the earth to a prison. AT: "the earth was like a prison that was about to lock me in forever" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Yet you brought up my life from the pit
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Jonah speaks of the place of the dead as if it were a pit. AT: "But you saved my life from the place of the dead" or "But you saved me from the place where the dead people are" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Yahweh, my God!
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In some languages, it may be more natural to put this at the beginning of the sentence or next to the word "you."
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]] |