en_tn/jon/02/05.md

translationWords

• en:tw:yahweh

translationNotes

• This is a continuation of Jonah's prayer that started in :en:bible🎶jon:02:01.
• The waters - "The waters" refers to the sea.
• to take my life - "and were about to kill me."
• the deep was all around me - "the deep water was all around me"
• seaweed - "grass that grows in the sea"
• The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever - Jonah used a metaphor to compare the earth to a prison. It can also be translated as a simile. “The earth was like a prison that was about to lock me in forever.” (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
• Yet you brought up my life from the pit - "But you saved my life from the place of the dead" or "But you saved me from the place where the dead people are"
• O Yahweh, my God! - In some languages it may be more natural to put this at the beginning of the sentence or next to the word "you".