Jonah 2:9
But I will sing to thank you, and I will offer a sacrifice to you. I will surely do what I have solemnly promised to do. Yahweh, you are the one who is able to save us.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
8All those who worship worthless idols are rejecting you, the one who could act kindly toward them.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3Then we will get ready and go up to Bethel. There I will make an altar to worship God. He is the one who helped me at the time when I was greatly distressed and afraid, and he has been with me wherever I have gone.”
1 Samuel 12:21Do not abandon Yahweh and worship useless idols. They cannot help you or save you from your enemies, because they are truly useless.
Job 22:27You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.
Psalms 37:39Yahweh rescues righteous people; in times of trouble he protects them [MET].
Psalms 50:23The sacrifice that truly honors me is to thank me for what I have done; and I will save those who always do the things that I want them to.”
Psalms 68:20Our God is the God who saves us; He is Yahweh, our Lord, the one who ◄allows us to escape/prevents us► from being killed in battles.
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 →