Jonah 2:4

You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me.

LXX2012 (British)

In The King James Version

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

In Context

3and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice.

5And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again towards your holy temple?

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42when they shall come and pray towards this place,

1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword to all nations.

Psalms 5:7But I will enter into your house in the multitude of your mercy: I will worship in your fear towards your holy temple. 1

Psalms 88:6For who in the + 88:6 Gr. clouds. heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord amongst the sons of God? 1

Isaiah 38:10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

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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