Jonah 2:7 "When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.

English Standard Version
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.

New American Standard Bible
"While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple.

King James Bible
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As my life was fading away, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.

International Standard Version
"As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.

American Standard Version
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.

Darby Bible Translation
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.

Young's Literal Translation
In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even to heaven.

Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 18:6
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Psalm 65:4
Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.

Psalm 77:10
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Psalm 77:11
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old.

Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for me.

Psalm 143:5
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse on the work of your hands.

Jonah 2:4
Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

Micah 1:2
Hear, all you people; listen, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:1-9 Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men may shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with God. To whom he prayed; to the Lord his God. This encourages even backsliders to return. What his prayer was. This seems to relate his experience and reflections, then and afterwards, rather than to be the form or substance of his prayer. Jonah reflects on the earnestness of his prayer, and God's readiness to hear and answer. If we would get good by our troubles, we must notice the hand of God in them. He had wickedly fled from the presence of the Lord, who might justly take his Holy Spirit from him, never to visit him more. Those only are miserable, whom God will no longer own and favour. But though he was perplexed, yet not in despair. Jonah reflects on the favour of God to him, when he sought to God, and trusted in him in his distress. He warns others, and tells them to keep close to God. Those who forsake their own duty, forsake their own mercy; those who run away from the work of their place and day, run away from the comfort of it. As far as a believer copies those who observe lying vanities, he forsakes his own mercy, and lives below his privileges. But Jonah's experience encourages others, in all ages, to trust in God, as the God of salvation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. soul fainted … I remembered the Lord—beautifully exemplifying the triumph of spirit over flesh, of faith over sense (Ps 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 regards his prayer as already heard.