Jonah 2:4

And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Young's Literal Translation

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

3When Thou dost cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:42(for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) — and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

1 Kings 9:7then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;

Psalms 5:7And I, in the abundance of Thy kindness, I enter Thy house, I bow myself toward Thy holy temple in Thy fear.

Psalms 42:8By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

Isaiah 38:10'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine 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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