bottoms of the mountains] Heb. cuttings off. barres] A terme taken from prisoners. The meaning is, I am in the Sea as it were in a strong prison; shut up and barred from the earth on all sides. for ever] Unlesse thou dost miraculously relieve me. yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption] Or, the pit. Thou hast delivered me from the belly of the fish, and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.