Jonah 2:1
Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
In Context
2And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 130:1Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
Lamentations 3:53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
Acts 16:24Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the 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 →