Jonah 2:4

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Berean Standard Bible

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

3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

Psalms 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder 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 →

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