Jonah 2:4
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes. Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 8:42(for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thine outstretched arm), when he shall come and pray toward this house,
1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalms 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of thy loving kindness I will come into thy house. In thy fear I will worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms 42:8[Yet] LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, [even] a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 88:6Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
Isaiah 38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:2-10
Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord , and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The… Read the whole commentary →