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Jonah 2:3-10

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3 1For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; 2all your waves and your billows passed over me.
4 3Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; 4yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.'
5 5The waters closed in over me 6to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
7 When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, 7and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
8 8Those who pay regard to vain idols 9forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 10But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. 11Salvation belongs to the LORD!"
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
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God ALWAYS keeps his promises -Jonah 2:9

Jonah 2:3-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 2

This chapter contains the prayer of Jonah, when in the fish's belly; the time when he prayed, the person he prayed unto, and the place where, are suggested in Jon 2:1; and the latter described as a place of great straitness and distress, and even as hell itself, Jon 2:2; The condition he was in, when cast into the sea, and when in the belly of the fish, which is observed, the more to heighten the greatness of the deliverance, Jon 2:3-6. The different frame of mind he was in, sometimes almost in despair, and ready to faint; and presently exercising faith and hope, remembering the goodness of the Lord, and resolving to look again to him, Jon 2:4,7. The gracious regards of God to him, in receiving, hearing, and answering his prayer, and bringing up his life from corruption, Jon 2:2,6,7. His resolution, let others do what they would, to praise the Lord, and give him the glory of his salvation, Jon 2:8,9; and the chapter is concluded with the order for his deliverance, and the manner of it, Jon 2:10.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. Psalms 88:6, 7
  • 2. Psalms 42:7
  • 3. Psalms 31:22
  • 4. [1 Kings 8:35, 38]
  • 5. [Lamentations 3:54]
  • 6. Psalms 69:1
  • 7. [2 Chronicles 30:27]
  • 8. Psalms 31:6; [2 Kings 17:15; Jeremiah 2:5]
  • 9. [Jeremiah 2:13]
  • 10. Psalms 50:14; [Hosea 14:2; Hebrews 13:15]
  • 11. Psalms 3:8
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