Jonah 2:1
And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
In Context
2And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.
Psalms 50:15I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
Psalms 130:1A Canticle in steps: of David. O Lord, my heart has not been exalted, and my eyes have not been raised up. Neither have I walked in greatness, nor in wonders beyond me.
Lamentations 3:53SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
Acts 16:24And since he had received this kind of order, he cast them into the interior prison cell, and he restricted their feet with stocks.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1
We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out of whose mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire, and whose breath kindles coals," Job xli. 19 , 21 . But God brings his people through fire, and through water ( Ps. lxvi. 12 ); and by his power, behold, Jonah the prophet is yet alive, and is heard of again. In this chapter God hears from him, for we find… Read the whole commentary →