New American Standard Bible 1995
Jonah 2:7
7While 1I was 2fainting away, I 3remembered the Lord, And my 4prayer came to You, Into 5Your holy temple.
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
5Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, Weeds were wrapped around my head. 6I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God. While I was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple. 8Those who regard vain idols Forsake their faithfulness, 9But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the Lord.”
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בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֤ף עָלַי֙ נַפְשִׁ֔י אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה זָכָ֑רְתִּי וַתָּב֤וֹא אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ תְּפִלָּתִ֔י אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear
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 would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.
- Psalms 119:81My soul languishes for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- Hebrews 12:3For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- 1 Samuel 30:6Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
- Psalms 20:7Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God.
- Psalms 42:5Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.
- Psalms 43:5Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
- Psalms 77:10Then I said, “It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
- Psalms 143:5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands.
- Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that fears the Lord, That obeys the voice of His servant, That walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
- Lamentations 3:21This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
- 2 Chronicles 30:27Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.
- Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.
- Jonah 2:4So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your 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
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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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