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 encompassed me, 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 bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast 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 observe 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 become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
• Psalms 27:13Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living...!
• Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.
• Hebrews 12:3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
• 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.
• Psalms 20:7Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.
• Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance.
• Psalms 43:5Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Psalms 77:10Then said I, This is my weakness: — the years of the right hand of the Most High
• Psalms 143:5I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands.
• Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, — let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God.
• Lamentations 3:21— This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
• 2 Corinthians 1:9But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
• 2 Chronicles 30:27And the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, to the heavens.
• Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.
• Jonah 2:4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I 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

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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