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Selected Verse: Jonah 2:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jon 2:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Then Jonah [03124] prayed [06419] unto the LORD [03068] his God [0430] out of the fish's [01710] belly [04578], |
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King James |
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JONAH'S PRAYER OF FAITH AND DELIVERANCE. ()
his God--"his" still, though Jonah had fled from Him. Faith enables Jonah now to feel this; just as the returning prodigal says of the Father, from whom he had wandered, "I will arise and go to my Father" ().
out of the fish's belly--Every place may serve as an oratory. No place is amiss for prayer. Others translate, "when (delivered) out of the fish's belly." English Version is better. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Then - ("And") Jonah prayed, i. e., when the three days and nights were passed, he uttered this devotion. The word "prayed" includes thanksgiving, not petition only. It is said of Hannah that she "prayed" Sa1 2:1; but her canticle is all one thanksgiving without a single petition. In this thanksgiving Jonah says how his prayers had been heard, but prays no more. God had delivered him from the sea, and be thanks God, in the fish's belly, as undisturbed as in a Church or an oratory, secure that God, who had done so much, would fulfill the rest. He called God, "his" God, who had in so many ways shown Himself to be His, by His revelations, by His inspirations, by His chastisements, and now by His mercy . "From these words, 'Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,' we perceive that, after he felt himself safe in the fish's belly, he despaired not of God's mercy." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
"Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly."
The prayer which follows (Jon 2:2-9) is not a petition for deliverance, but thanksgiving and praise for deliverance already received. It by no means follows from this, however, that Jonah did not utter this prayer till after he had been vomited upon the land, and that v. 10 ought to be inserted before v. 2; but, as the earlier commentators have shown, the fact is rather this, that when Jonah had been swallowed by the fish, and found that he was preserved alive in the fish's belly, he regarded this as a pledge of his deliverance, for which he praised the Lord. Luther also observes, that "he did not actually utter these very words with his mouth, and arrange them in this orderly manner, in the belly of the fish; but that he here shows what the state of his mind was, and what thoughts he had when he was engaged in this conflict with death." The expression "his God" (אלהיו) must not be overlooked. He prayed not only to Jehovah, as the heathen sailors also did (Jon 1:14), but to Jehovah as his God, from whom he had tried to escape, and whom he now addresses again as his God when in peril of death. "He shows his faith by adoring Him as his God" (Burk). The prayer consists for the most part of reminiscences of passages in the Psalms, which were so exactly suited to Jonah's circumstances, that he could not have expressed his thoughts and feelings any better in words of his own. It is by no means so "atomically compounded from passages in the Psalms" that there is any ground for pronouncing it "a later production which has been attributed to Jonah," as Knobel and De Wette do; but it is the simple and natural utterance of a man versed in the Holy Scripture and living in the word of God, and is in perfect accordance with the prophet's circumstances and the state of his mind. Commencing with the confession, that the Lord has heard his crying to Him in distress (Jon 2:2), Jonah depicts in two strophes (Jon 2:3 and Jon 2:4, Jon 2:5-7) the distress into which he had been brought, and the deliverance out of that destruction which appeared inevitable, and closes in Jon 2:8, Jon 2:9 with a vow of thanksgiving for the deliverance which he had received. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Then Jonah prayed - out of the fish's belly - This verse makes the first of the second chapter in the Hebrew text.
It may be asked, "How could Jonah either pray or breathe in the stomach of the fish?" Very easily, if God so willed it. And let the reader keep this constantly in view; the whole is a miracle, from Jonah's being swallowed by the fish till he was cast ashore by the same animal. It was God that had prepared the great fish. It was the Lord that spake to the fish, and caused it to vomit Jonah upon the dry land. All is miracle. |
1 And Hannah [02584] prayed [06419], and said [0559], My heart [03820] rejoiceth [05970] in the LORD [03068], mine horn [07161] is exalted [07311] in the LORD [03068]: my mouth [06310] is enlarged [07337] over mine enemies [0341]; because I rejoice [08055] in thy salvation [03444].
9 But I will sacrifice [02076] unto thee with the voice [06963] of thanksgiving [08426]; I will pay [07999] that that I have vowed [05087]. Salvation [03444] is of the LORD [03068].
8 They that observe [08104] lying [07723] vanities [01892] forsake [05800] their own mercy [02617].
5 The waters [04325] compassed me about [0661], even to the soul [05315]: the depth [08415] closed me round about [05437], the weeds [05488] were wrapped about [02280] my head [07218].
6 I went down [03381] to the bottoms [07095] of the mountains [02022]; the earth [0776] with her bars [01280] was about me for ever [05769]: yet hast thou brought up [05927] my life [02416] from corruption [07845], O LORD [03068] my God [0430].
7 When my soul [05315] fainted [05848] within me I remembered [02142] the LORD [03068]: and my prayer [08605] came in [0935] unto thee, into thine holy [06944] temple [01964].
4 Then I said [0559], I am cast out [01644] of thy sight [05869]; yet I will look [05027] again [03254] toward thy holy [06944] temple [01964].
3 For thou hadst cast [07993] me into the deep [04688], in the midst [03824] of the seas [03220]; and the floods [05104] compassed [05437] me about: all thy billows [04867] and thy waves [01530] passed over [05674] me.
2 And said [0559], I cried [07121] by reason of mine affliction [06869] unto the LORD [03068], and he heard [06030] me; out of the belly [0990] of hell [07585] cried [07768] I, and thou heardest [08085] my voice [06963].
14 Wherefore they cried [07121] unto the LORD [03068], and said [0559], We beseech thee [0577], O LORD [03068], we beseech thee, let us not perish [06] for this man's [0376] life [05315], and lay [05414] not upon us innocent [05355] [05355] blood [01818]: for thou, O LORD [03068], hast done [06213] as it pleased [02654] thee.
2 And said [0559], I cried [07121] by reason of mine affliction [06869] unto the LORD [03068], and he heard [06030] me; out of the belly [0990] of hell [07585] cried [07768] I, and thou heardest [08085] my voice [06963].
3 For thou hadst cast [07993] me into the deep [04688], in the midst [03824] of the seas [03220]; and the floods [05104] compassed [05437] me about: all thy billows [04867] and thy waves [01530] passed over [05674] me.
4 Then I said [0559], I am cast out [01644] of thy sight [05869]; yet I will look [05027] again [03254] toward thy holy [06944] temple [01964].
5 The waters [04325] compassed me about [0661], even to the soul [05315]: the depth [08415] closed me round about [05437], the weeds [05488] were wrapped about [02280] my head [07218].
6 I went down [03381] to the bottoms [07095] of the mountains [02022]; the earth [0776] with her bars [01280] was about me for ever [05769]: yet hast thou brought up [05927] my life [02416] from corruption [07845], O LORD [03068] my God [0430].
7 When my soul [05315] fainted [05848] within me I remembered [02142] the LORD [03068]: and my prayer [08605] came in [0935] unto thee, into thine holy [06944] temple [01964].
8 They that observe [08104] lying [07723] vanities [01892] forsake [05800] their own mercy [02617].
9 But I will sacrifice [02076] unto thee with the voice [06963] of thanksgiving [08426]; I will pay [07999] that that I have vowed [05087]. Salvation [03444] is of the LORD [03068].