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Jonah 2:3

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3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

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Lamentations 3:55

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55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #212

  
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212. Internal Meaning of Jonah, Chapter 2

1-10 Prophecy concerning the Lord's combats with the hells, and concerning His most grievous temptations at the time, and concerning His state at the time; the three days and nights during which Jonah was in the bowels of the fish, signify the entire duration of the combat with the hells (7, 6)

  
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