Jonah 2:1
Then Ionah prayed vnto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the Lord brought vpon them the captaines of the hoste of the King of Asshur, which tooke Manasseh and put him in fetters, and bound him in chaines, and caryed him to Babel.
Psalms 50:15And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
Psalms 130:1A song of degrees. Out of the deepe places haue I called vnto thee, O Lord.
Lamentations 3:53They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
Acts 16:24Who hauing receiued such commandement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1
We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out of whose mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire, and whose breath kindles coals," Job xli. 19 , 21 . But God brings his people through fire, and through water ( Ps. lxvi. 12 ); and by his power, behold, Jonah the prophet is yet alive, and is heard of again. In this chapter God hears from him, for we find… Read the whole commentary →