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.
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In Context
8They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
10And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
1 Samuel 12:21and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] 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 stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God. Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Psalms 68:20God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape 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 →