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 Living Translation (NLT)As my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord. And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple.

Context of Jonah 2:7

5The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head. 6I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple. 8“Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy. 9But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.”

Jonah 2:7 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• When my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315
• faintedעָטַף‛âţaph · be feebleH5848
• within me I rememberedזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• and my prayerתְּפִלָּהtephillâh · prayerH8605
• came inבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• unto thee, into thine holyקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• templeהֵיכָלhêykâl · templeH1964

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 has melted within Me.
• Psalms 27:13I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.
• Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.
• Hebrews 12:3For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
• 1 Samuel 30:6Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
• Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
• Psalms 42:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.
• Psalms 43:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
• Psalms 77:10And I said, “This is my anguish; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
• Psalms 143:5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands.
• Isaiah 50:10“Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord And rely upon his God.
• Lamentations 3:21This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
• 2 Corinthians 1:9Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises 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 dwelling place, to heaven.
• Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.
• Jonah 2:4Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet 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

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