Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
10And LORD spoke to the sea creature, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.
1 Samuel 12:21And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Job 22:27Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is of LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble,
Psalms 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way [aright] I will show the salvation of God.
Psalms 68:20God is to us a God of deliverances, and escape from death belongs to lord LORD.
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 →