Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”
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In Context
8Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
10Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
1 Samuel 12:21Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
Job 22:27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Psalms 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
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 →