Jonah 2:4

And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes || (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)

Literal Standard Version

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

3When You cast me [into] the deep, || Into the heart of the seas, || Then the flood surrounds me, || All Your breakers and Your billows have passed over me.

5Waters have surrounded me to the soul, || The deep surrounds me, || The weed is bound to my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42for they hear of Your great Name, and of Your strong hand, and of Your outstretched arm—and he has come in and prayed toward this house,

1 Kings 9:7then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My Name I send away from My presence, and Israel has been for an allegory and for a byword among all the peoples;

Psalms 5:7And I, in the abundance of Your kindness, || I enter Your house, || I bow myself toward Your holy temple in Your fear.

Psalms 42:8By day YHWH commands His kindness, || And by night a song [is] with me, || A prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6You have put me in the lowest pit, || In dark places, in depths.

Isaiah 38:10“I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant 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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