Jonah 2:4
And thou hast cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
5And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:42And thy stretched out arm,) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place,
1 Kings 9:7I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.
Psalms 5:7Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: Thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.
Psalms 42:8Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
Psalms 88:6free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
Isaiah 38:10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for 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 →