Jonah 2:4
And, I, said, I am driven out from before thine eyes,—Yet will I again have regard unto thy holy temple:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 8:42(for they will certainly hear of thy great Name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched-out arm,—and so will come in and pray towards this house),
1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me,—and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;
Psalms 5:7But, I, in the abounding of thy lovingkindness, will enter thy house, I will bow down towards thy holy temple, in reverence of thee:
Psalms 42:8By day, will Yahweh command his lovingkindness, And, in the night, shall His song be with me, My prayer be to the GOD of my life.
Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me, In the lowest pit, In dark places, In the deeps:
Isaiah 38:10I, said—In the noontide of my days, I must enter the gates of hades,—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 →