Jonah 2:1
And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
Young's Literal Translation
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 33:11and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.
Psalms 50:15And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
Psalms 130:1A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Acts 16:24who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast 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 →