Jonah 2:4

Then I said, I am driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards your holy temple?

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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

3For you cast me into the deep, into heart of the seas, and the great flood rolled about me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me.

5The waters surrounded me, the great deep engulfed me, the sea weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Cross References

Psalms 5:7But I, through your kindness abundant, may enter your house, and towards the shrine of your temple may reverently bow.

Psalms 42:8In the day I cry to the Lord to summon his kindness; and the song that I sing in the night is a prayer to the living God.

Psalms 88:6In the deepest pit you have put me, in shadows deep and dark.

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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