Jonah 2:4

I said to myself, ‘The Lord has banished me from his sight. Will I ever see your holy Temple again?’

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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

3You threw me into the deep, all the way down to the bottom of the sea. Water flooded all around me; your crashing waves rolled over me.

5The water swirled over me so I couldn't breathe; the deep sucked me down; seaweed wrapped itself around my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42having heard of your great nature and power and ability to help, when they come and pray toward this Temple,

1 Kings 9:7then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have dedicated to my honor, and I will make it an object lesson of ridicule among the nations.

Psalms 5:7But because of the greatness of your trustworthy love, I can come into your house; in awe of you, I bow down towards your holy Temple.

Psalms 42:8But every day the Lord shows me his trustworthy love; every night he gives me songs to sing—a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6You have placed me in a deep pit, in the depths of darkness.

Isaiah 38:10I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest 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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