Jonah 2:9
But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
10And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
Job 22:27You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
Psalms 37:39The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
Psalms 68:20Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer 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 →