God’s Word Translation
Jonah 2:4
4“Then I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight. Will I ever see your holy temple again?’
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
2Jonah prayed: “I called to the Lord in my distress, and he answered me. From the depths of my ⌞watery⌟ grave I cried for help, and you heard my cry. 3You threw me into the deep, into the depths of the sea, and water surrounded me. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me. “Then I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight. Will I ever see your holy temple again?’ 5“Water surrounded me, threatening my life. The deep ⌞sea⌟ covered me completely. Seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6I sank to the foot of the mountains. I sank to the bottom, where bars held me forever. But you brought me back from the pit, O Lord, my God.
Read all of Jonah 2Jonah 2:4 word by word
וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינֶ֑יךָ אַ֚ךְ אוֹסִ֣יף לְהַבִּ֔יט אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jonah 2:4
- Psalms 31:22When I was panic-stricken, I said, “I have been cut off from your sight.” But you heard my pleas for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
- Psalms 77:1Loudly, I cried to God. Loudly, I cried to God so that he would open his ears to ⌞hear⌟ me.
- Isaiah 38:10I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of Sheol and be robbed of the rest of my life.
- Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The Lord has abandoned me. My Lord has forgotten me.”
- Ezekiel 37:11The Lord also said to me, “Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say, ‘Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.’
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut Israel out of the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. Israel will be an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
- Jeremiah 7:15I will force you out of my sight as I forced out all your relatives, all of Ephraim’s descendants.’
- Jeremiah 15:1Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel were standing in front of me, I would not feel sorry for these people. Send them away from me, and let them go.
- 1 Kings 8:38⌞hear⌟ every prayer for mercy, made by one person or by all the people in Israel, whose consciences bother them, who stretch out their hands toward this temple.
- 2 Chronicles 6:38if they change their attitude toward you in the land where they are captives, if they pray to you toward the land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
- Psalms 5:7But I will enter your house because of your great mercy. Out of reverence for you, I will bow toward your holy temple.
- Daniel 6:10When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went to his house. An upper room in his house had windows that opened in the direction of Jerusalem. Three times each day he got down on his knees and prayed to his God. He had always praised God this way.
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
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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
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