Jonah 2:1
And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s womb,
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 33:11Therefore the Lord brought upon them the princes of the host of the king of Assyrians (or And so the Lord brought upon them the leaders of the army of the king of Assyria); and they took Manasseh, and bound him with chains, and stocks, and led him into Babylon.
Psalms 50:15And inwardly call thou me in the day of tribulation; and I shall deliver thee, and thou shalt honour me. (And call thou on me in the day of trouble; and I shall save thee, and then thou shalt honour me.)
Psalms 130:1The song of degrees. ( A song for steps of ascending.) Lord, I cried to thee from the depths;
Lamentations 3:53My life slid into a pit; and they putted a stone on me.
Acts 16:24And when he had taken such a precept, he put them into the inner prison, and restrained the feet of them in a tree (or and restrained their feet in the stocks).
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 →