Jonah 2:4

And I said, I am cast away from the sight of thine eyes; nevertheless again I shall see thine holy temple. (And I said, Though I am thrown away from thy sight; nevertheless I shall see thy holy Temple again.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

3Thou castedest me down into deepness, in the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me [about]; all thy swells and thy waves passed on me. (Thou hast thrown me down into the depths, into the heart of the sea, and the water surrounded me; yea, all thy swells and thy waves passed over me.)

5Waters (en)compassed me till to my soul, deepness environed me, the sea (weed) covered mine head. (The water surrounded me unto my very breath, the depths environed me, the seaweed covered my head.)

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42for thy great name, and thy strong hand, and thine arm stretched out (or and thy outstretched arm), shall be heard (of) everywhere; therefore when he cometh, and prayeth in this place,

1 Kings 9:7I shall do away Israel from the face of the land which I gave to them; and I shall cast away from my sight the temple, which I [have] hallowed to my name, (or and I shall throw away from my sight the Temple which I have dedicated, or consecrated, in honour of my name); and Israel shall be into a proverb and into a fable, to all peoples.

Psalms 5:7But Lord, in the multitude of thy mercy, I shall enter into thine house; I shall worship to (ward) thine holy temple in thy dread. (But Lord, because of thy great love, I shall enter into thy House; I shall bow toward thy holy Temple in reverence for thee.)

Psalms 42:8The Lord sent his mercy in the day; and his song in the night, (or The Lord sent forth his love in the day; and his song in the night). With me is the prayer to (the) God of my life;

Psalms 88:6They have put me in the lower pit; in dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Isaiah 38:10I said, in the middle of my days, I shall go to the gates of hell. I sought the residue of my years; (I said, in the middle of my days, I shall go now to the gates of Sheol, that is, to the gates of the land of the dead, or I shall go now to the gates of the grave; I shall be deprived of the rest 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 →

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