Jonah 2:4

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.’

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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

3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42(for they shall hear of your great name and of your mighty hand and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays towards this house,

1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword amongst all peoples.

Psalms 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow towards your holy temple in reverence of you.

Psalms 42:8The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue 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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