Jonah 2:4

(2:5) And I thought indeed, I am driven out from before thy eyes: yet I again shall look toward thy holy temple.

Leeser Tanakh

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 hast cast me into the deep, in the heart of the seas; and the stream compasseth me about: all thy billows and thy waves have passed over me.

5(2:6) The waters surrounded me, to the peril of my life; the deep compassed me about: sea-weeds were bound about my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42For they will hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy outstretched arm; when he will come and pray at this house:

1 Kings 9:7Then will I cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed unto my name, will I cast away from my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word among all the nations;

Psalms 5:7(5:8) But as for me—in the abundance of thy kindness will I enter thy house: I will bow myself down before thy holy temple in the fear of thee.

Psalms 42:8(42:9) In the daytime the Lord will command his kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, as a prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6(88:7) Thou hast laid me in the pit of the lower world, in darkness, in the depths.

Isaiah 38:10I had said, In the midst of my days, must I enter 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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