Jonah 2:2

Jonah 2:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)He said: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
• English Standard Version (ESV)saying, "I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he said: “I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.

Context of Jonah 2:2

1Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly. And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice. 3For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. 4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Jonah 2:2 word by word

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר קָ֠רָאתִי מִצָּ֥רָה לִ֛י אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑נִי מִבֶּ֧טֶן שְׁא֛וֹל שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי שָׁמַ֥עְתָּ קוֹלִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Jonah 2:2

• Genesis 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
• 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.
• Psalms 4:1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
• Psalms 18:4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
• Psalms 22:24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard.
• Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
• Psalms 65:2O thou that hearest prayer, Unto thee shall all flesh come.
• Psalms 120:1In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.
• Psalms 142:1I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
• Hebrews 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• 1 Samuel 1:16Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
• Psalms 18:5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
• Psalms 61:2From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Psalms 86:13For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Psalms 88:1O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

Commentaries on Jonah 2:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Out of the belly of hell - Among the Hebrews שאול sheol means the grave, any deep pit, the place of separate spirits, etc. Here the prophet represents himself as in the bottom of the sea; for so sheol must be understood in this place.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2I cried by reason of mine affliction - , or, “out of affliction” which came “to me.” So the Psalmist thanked God in the same words, though in a different order; “To the Lord in trouble to me I called, and He heard me.” He “called,” and God heard and answered, “He does not say, I “call,” but I “called”; he does not pray for the future, but gives thanks for the past.” Strange cause of thankfulness this would seem to most faith, to be alive in such a grave…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Jonah's psalm-prayer begins by recalling an earlier, less polished but more fervent prayer (his cry for help when he was about to drown). From the belly of Sheol: Sheol was believed to be the place where the dead lived (see Isaiah 14:15; Ezekiel 31:15–17). The metaphor of Sheol as a belly is unique in the Old Testament. It pictures Jonah's rescue from Sheol through the belly of a fish.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in Jon 2:2, Psa 120:1; in Jon 2:3, Psa 42:7; in Jon 2:4, Psa 31:22; in Jon 2:5, Psa 69:1; in Jon 2:7, Psa 142:3; 18:6; in Jon 2:8, Psa 31:6; in Jon 2:9, Psa 116:17, 18, and 3:8. Jonah, an inspired man, thus attests both the antiquity and inspiration of the Psalms. It marks the spirit of…Read the comment

Topics related to Jonah 2:2

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Despondency
• Faith
• Hades
• Hell
• Prayer
• Repentance

In the dictionaries

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• Cry, Crying
• Jonah, the Book of
• Tribulation
• Hades, Sheol

Commentaries on Jonah 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings