Jonah 2:4

Jonah 2:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
• New International Version (NIV)I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

Context of Jonah 2:4

2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. 3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me. At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’ 5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head. 6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

Jonah 2:4 word by word

וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינֶ֑יךָ אַ֚ךְ אוֹסִ֣יף לְהַבִּ֔יט אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear

• At this, Iאֲנִי'ănîy · IH589
• saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• I have been banishedגָּרַשׁgârash · to drive out: drive outH1644
• fromנֶ֫גֶדneged · beforeH5048
• Your sightעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eye: seeingH5869
• yetאַךְ'ak · surelyH389
• I will lookנָבַטnâbaţ · to lookH5027
• once moreיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• towardאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413
• Your holyקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• templeהֵיכָלhêykâl · templeH1964

Cross-references for Jonah 2:4

• Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
• Psalms 77:1I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
• Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
• Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
• Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
• Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
• 1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
• 2 Chronicles 6:38and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
• Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
• Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Commentaries on Jonah 2:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I am cast out of thy sight - See Psalm 31:22. Thy holy temple - Then Jerusalem was not yet destroyed, for the temple was standing.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4I am cast out of Thy sight - , literally, “from before Thine eyes.” Jonah had willfully withdrawn from standing in God‘s presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of it. David had said in his haste, “I am cut off.” Jonah substitutes the stronger word, “I am cast forth,” driven forth, expelled, like the “mire and dirt” Isaiah 57:20 which the waves drive along, or like the waves themselves in their restless motion Isaiah…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4As Jonah was about to drown, he called out for help, life, and God's renewed presence. It is ironic that Jonah mentioned God driving him away, as Jonah himself aimed to flee to Tarshish (Jonah 1:3). I will look once more: Jonah was either confident he would be rescued and worship again in the temple in Jerusalem, or he was calling to the Lord in his temple from the sea (compare Jonah 2:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. cast out from thy sight--that is, from Thy favorable regard. A just retribution on one who had fled "from the presence of the Lord" (Jon 1:3). Now that he has got his desire, he feels it to be his bitterest sorrow to be deprived of God's presence, which once he regarded as a burden, and from which he desired to escape. He had turned his back on God; so God turned His back on him, making his sin his punishment. toward thy holy temple--In the confidence…Read the comment

Topics related to Jonah 2:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
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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