Jonah 2:9
But I will offer you sacrifices, shouting out my thanks. I will keep my promises to you, for salvation comes from the Lord.”
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8Those who worship worthless idols give up their trust in God's goodness.
10Then the Lord told the fish to spit out Jonah onto the shore.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3We have to get ready and go to Bethel so I can build an altar to God who answered me in my time of trouble. He has been with me wherever I went.”
1 Samuel 12:21Don't worship worthless idols that can't help you or save you, for they are nothing.
Job 22:27You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will keep your promises to him.
Psalms 37:39The Lord saves those who live right; he is their protection in times of trouble.
Psalms 50:23But those who give an offering of thanks honor me, and to those who follow the right I will show them the salvation of God.”
Psalms 68:20For us, God is a God who saves. The Lord God provides our 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 →