Jonah 2:4

(2-5) And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

3(2-4) For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me.

5(2-6) The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42for they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy mighty hand, and of Thine outstretched arm — when he shall come and pray toward this house;

1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;

Psalms 5:7(5-8) But as for me, in the abundance of Thy lovingkindness will I come into Thy house; I will bow down toward Thy holy temple in the fear of Thee.

Psalms 42:8(42-9) By day the LORD will command His lovingkindness, and in the night His song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6(88-7) Thou hast laid me in the nethermost pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

Isaiah 38:10I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue 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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