Jonah 2:9
(2-10) But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of thanksgiving; that which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is of the LORD.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
8(2-9) They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
10(2-11) And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.'
1 Samuel 12:21and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD; He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me; and to him that ordereth his way aright will I show the salvation of God.'
Psalms 68:20(68-21) God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of 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 →