Jonah 2:8
When my nefesh fainted within me, 1 I remembered Hashem; 1 and my tefillah came unto Thee, 1 into Thine Heikhal Kodesh. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
In Context
9They that observe lying vanities 1 forsake their own chesed. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected His chukkot, and His brit (covenant) that He made with their avot, and His edot (testimonies, warnings) which He testified against them; and they followed after hevel, and became hevel, and went after the Goyim that were all around them, concerning whom Hashem had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Psalms 69:14But as for me, may my tefillah be unto Thee, Hashem, 1 in an et ratzon (acceptable time, time of favor); 1 O Elohim, in the multitude of Thy chesed hear me, 1 in the emes of Thy salvation. 1
Jeremiah 2:13For Ami have committed shtayim ra'ot (two evils): 1 they have forsaken Me, the fountain of Mayim Chayim, 1 and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, 1 that can hold no mayim. 1
Jeremiah 10:14Kol Adam is stupid in his da'as; 1 every goldsmith is shamed by the pesel (idol); 1 for his nesekh (molten image) is sheker, 1 and there is no ruach in them. 1
Micah 1:2Hear, all ye peoples; 1 hearken, O Eretz (earth), and all that is therein; 1 and let Adonoi Hashem be witness against you, 1 Adonoi from His Heikhal Kodesh. 1
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 →