Jonah 2:7
As my life slipped away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer reached you, in your holy temple.
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8Those who worship worthless idols abandon their own mercy,
Cross References
Psalms 18:6In distress I cried to the Lord, and shouted for help to my God; in his temple he heard my voice, into his ears came my cry.
Psalms 22:14Poured out am I like water, and all my bones are loosened. My heart is become like wax, melted within me.
Psalms 42:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 43:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 77:10Then I said, “This it is that grieves me, that the hand of the Most High has changed.”
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 →