Jonah 2 · Verse 4

Jonah 2:4

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

Jonah 2:4 in other translations

BSBAt this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
WEBI said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
ASVAnd I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
YLTAnd I--I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
DARBYAnd I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
BBEAnd I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
WebsterThen I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.

What does Jonah 2:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. cast out from thy sight--that is, from Thy favorable regard. A just retribution on one who had fled "from the presence of the Lord" (Jon 1:3). Now that he has got his desire, he feels it to be his bitterest sorrow to be deprived of God's presence, which once he regarded as a burden, and from which he desired to escape. He had turned his back on God; so God turned His back on him, making his sin his punishment. toward thy holy temple--In the confidence of faith he anticipates yet to see the temple at Jerusalem, the appointed place of worship (1Ki 8:38), and there to render thanksgiving [Henderson]. Rather, I think, "Though cast out of Thy sight, I will still with the eye of faith once more look in prayer towards Thy temple at Jerusalem, whither, as Thy earthly throne, Thou hast desired Thy worshippers to direct their prayers."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 I am cast out of thy sight - See Psa 31:22. Thy holy temple - Then Jerusalem was not yet destroyed, for the temple was standing.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jonah 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…

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Jonah 2:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַאֲנִ֣יva.'a.Niand IH589
אָמַ֔רְתִּי'a.Mar.tiI saidH559
נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּיnig.Rash.tiI have been driven awayH1644
מִנֶּ֣גֶדmi.Ne.gedfrom beforeH5048
עֵינֶ֑יךָ'ei.Nei.khaeyes yourH5869
אַ֚ךְ'akhneverthelessH389
אוֹסִ֣יף'o.SifI will repeatH3254
לְהַבִּ֔יטle.ha.Bitto lookH5027
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הֵיכַ֖לhei.Khal[the] temple ofH1964
קָדְשֶֽׁךָ\׃kod.She.chaholiness yourH6944

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Cross references for Jonah 2:4

  • Psalms 31:22

    For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • Psalms 5:7

    But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

  • 2 Chronicles 6:38

    If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

  • Isaiah 38:17

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

  • 1 Kings 8:38-39

    What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

  • Daniel 6:10

    Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

  • Jeremiah 7:15

    And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

  • Isaiah 38:10-14

    I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. …

  • Isaiah 49:14

    But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

  • Jeremiah 15:1

    Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • 1 Kings 8:48

    And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

  • Ezekiel 37:11

    Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

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I said.
Ps 31:22; 77:1-7; Isa 38:10-14,17; 49:14; Eze 37:11
out.
1Ki 9:7; Jer 7:15; 15:1
toward.
1Ki 8:38,39,42,48; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; Da 6:10

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Context

  • Jonah 2:3

    For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

  • Jonah 2:4

    Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • Jonah 2:5

    The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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Jonah 2:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Echásteme en el profundo, en medio de los mares, y rodeóme la corriente; todas tus ondas y tus olas pasaron sobre mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu m’as jeté dans l’abîme, dans le cœur des mers, et le courant m’a entouré; toutes tes vagues et tes flots ont passé sur moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn du hattest mich in die Tiefe, in das Herz der Meere geworfen, und der Strom umschloß mich; alle deine Wogen und deine Wellen fuhren über mich hin.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et projecisti me in profundum in corde maris, et flumen circumdedit me: omnes gurgites tui, et fluctus tui super me transierunt.