Jonah 2:4
I said, 'I am driven out from before your eyes; 1 yet I will again look toward your holy temple.' 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
Cross References
1 Kings 8:42for they will hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your raised arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel from off the ground that I have given them; and this house that I have set apart to my name, I will cast it out of my sight, and Israel will become an example to be mocked and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
Psalms 5:7But as for me, because of your great covenant faithfulness, I will come into your house; 1 in reverence I will bow down toward your holy temple. 1
Psalms 42:8Yet Yahweh will command his covenant faithfulness in the daytime; 1 in the night his song will be with me, 1 a prayer to the God of my life. 1
Psalms 88:6You place me in the lowest part of the pit, 1 in the dark and deep places. 1
Isaiah 38:10“I said that halfway through my life 1 I will go through the gates of Sheol; I am sent there for the rest of my years. 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 →