Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
10And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
Cross References
Genesis 35:3and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.
1 Samuel 12:21and turn ye not aside; for [it would be] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms 68:20Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.
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 →