Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
8They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
10And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 35:3and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
1 Samuel 12:21and turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee; and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strong hold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 50:23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms 68:20God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto JEHOVAH the Lord belong the issues 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 →