Jonah 2:7

Jonah 2:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
• New International Version (NIV)“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.

Context of Jonah 2:7

5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head. 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. 9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.

Jonah 2:7 word by word

בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֤ף עָלַי֙ נַפְשִׁ֔י אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה זָכָ֑רְתִּי וַתָּב֤וֹא אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ תְּפִלָּתִ֔י אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear

• cameעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927

Cross-references for Jonah 2:7

• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
• Psalms 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
• Psalms 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation; ButI hope in thy word.
• Hebrews 12:3For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
• 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 20:7Some trustin chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.
• Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Andwhy art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him Forthe help of his countenance.
• Psalms 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who isthe help of my countenance, and my God.
• Psalms 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will rememberthe years of the right hand of the Most High.
• Psalms 143:5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy doings; I muse on the work of thy hands.
• Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
• Lamentations 3:21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
• 2 Corinthians 1:9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
• 2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even unto heaven.
• Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.
• Jonah 2:4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Commentaries on Jonah 2:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7When my soul fainted - When I had given up all hope of life. My prayer came in unto thee - Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into the temple of God, and standing before him. This is a very fine and delicate image. This clause is one of those which I suppose the prophet to have added when he penned this prayer.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7When my sold fainted - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jonah 4:8. thirst, Amos 8:13. exhaustion, Isaiah 51:20. when a film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over. The soul of the pious never is so full of God, as when all things else fade from him. Jonah could not but have remembered God in the tempest; when the lots were east; when he adjudged himself…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7I remembered the LORD: Here, Jonah means, "I prayed to the Lord." My prayer … holy temple: The temple was God's special place for worship in Israel, even though God is everywhere all the time (Psalm 139:7–10; Jeremiah 23:23–24).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. soul fainted ... I remembered the Lord--beautifully exemplifying the triumph of spirit over flesh, of faith over sense (Psa 73:26; 42:6). For a time troubles shut out hope; but faith revived when Jonah "remembered the Lord," what a gracious God He is, and how now He still preserves his life and consciousness in his dark prison-house. into thine holy temple--the temple at Jerusalem (Jon 2:4). As there he looks in believing prayer towards it, so here he…Read the comment

Topics related to Jonah 2:7

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Church
• Faith
• Prayer
• Repentance

In the dictionaries

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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