Jonah 2:9
(2:10) But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; that which I have vowed will I pay; [for] help is with the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
8(2:9) They that guard false vanities forsake [the source of] their kindness.
10(2:11) And the Lord commanded 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 the God who answered me on the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.
1 Samuel 12:21And turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; because they are vain.
Job 22:27Thou wilt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and thy vows wilt thou pay.
Psalms 37:39And the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord: he is their strong-hold in the time of distress.
Psalms 50:23Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.
Psalms 68:20(68:21) Our God is to us the God of salvation: and by the Eternal the Lord are the escapes 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 →