Jonah 2:7
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 77:10So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
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 →