Jonah 2:7
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord.My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
Psalms 18:6In my distress I called on the Lord,and cried to my God.He heard my voice out of his temple.My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water.All my bones are out of joint.My heart is like wax;it is melted within me.
Psalms 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul?Why are you disturbed within me?Hope in God!For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Psalms 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul?Why are you disturbed within me?Hope in God!For I shall still praise him:my Savior, my helper, and my God.
Psalms 77:10Then I thought, "I will appeal to this:the years of the right hand of the Most High."
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 →