Jonah 2:1
While he was inside the huge fish, Jonah prayed to Yahweh God, whom he worshiped. After Yahweh told him that he would answer his prayer,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria and their soldiers to come to Jerusalem, and they captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his feet and took him to Babylon.
Psalms 50:15And pray to me when you have troubles. If you do that, I will rescue you, and then you will praise me.
Psalms 130:1Yahweh, I have a lot of troubles/many difficulties, so I call out to you.
Lamentations 3:53They threw me into a pit to kill me, and they threw stones on top of me.
Acts 16:24Because the officials had commanded him to do that, the jailer shoved Paul and Silas into the cell that was farthest inside. There, he made them sit down on the floor/ground and stretch out their legs. Then he fastened their ankles in grooves between two large wooden beams, so that Paul and Silas could not move their legs.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1
We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out of whose mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire, and whose breath kindles coals," Job xli. 19 , 21 . But God brings his people through fire, and through water ( Ps. lxvi. 12 ); and by his power, behold, Jonah the prophet is yet alive, and is heard of again. In this chapter God hears from him, for we find… Read the whole commentary →