Jonah 2:7

When I was almost dead [EUP], Yahweh, I ◄thought about/prayed to► you. You heard my prayer, up there where you are, in your holy temple.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

In Context

6I sank down to where the mountains start rising [MET] from the bottom of the sea. I thought that forever it would be as though my body would be in a prison [MTY] inside the earth below me. But you, Yahweh God, whom I worship, rescued me from going down to the place of the dead.

8All those who worship worthless idols are rejecting you, the one who could act kindly toward them.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood up to bless the people, and God heard them in heaven, the holy place where he lives.

Psalms 18:6But when I was very distressed, I called out to Yahweh, and from his temple he heard me. He listened to me when I cried out for help.

Psalms 22:14I am completely exhausted [MET], and all my bones are out of their joints/places. I no longer expect that God will save me; that expectation is gone completely, like wax that has melted away.

Psalms 42:5So I say to myself, “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ] I confidently expect God to help me, and again I will praise him, my God, the one who saves me.”

Psalms 43:5So ◄why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ] I confidently expect God to bless me, and I will praise him again, my God, the one who saves me.

Psalms 77:10Then I said, “What causes me to be very sad is that it seems that God, who is greater than any other god, is no longer powerful.”

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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