Jonah 2 · Verse 7

Jonah 2:7

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah 2:7, King James Version

Jonah 2:7 in other translations

BSBAs my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
WEB“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
ASVWhen my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
YLTIn the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
DARBYWhen my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.
BBEWhen my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
WebsterWhen my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

What does Jonah 2:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. 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 regards his prayer as already heard.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 When 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.

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 2:7 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.

בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֤ףbe.hit.'a.Tefwhen fainted awayH5848
עָלַי֙'a.Laion meH5921
נַפְשִׁ֔יnaf.Shilife myH5315
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
זָכָ֑רְתִּיza.Kha.re.tiI rememberedH2142
וַתָּב֤וֹאva.ta.Vo'and it cameH935
אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙'e.Lei.khato youH413
תְּפִלָּתִ֔יte.fi.la.Tiprayer myH8605
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הֵיכַ֖לhei.Khal[the] temple ofH1964
קָדְשֶֽׁךָ\׃kod.She.chaholiness yourH6944

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jonah 2:7

  • Psalms 18:6

    In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  • 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 unto heaven.

  • Psalms 143:5

    I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

  • Psalms 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.

  • 1 Samuel 30:6

    And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  • Psalms 77:10-11

    And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

  • Psalms 27:13

    I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

  • Psalms 20:7

    Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

  • Lamentations 3:21-26

    This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. …

  • 2 Corinthians 1:9-10

    But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

  • Psalms 42:11

    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • Psalms 65:4

    Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
my soul.
Ps 22:14; 27:13; 119:81-83; Heb 12:3
I remembered.
1Sa 30:6; Ps 20:7; 42:5,11; 43:5; 77:10,11; 143:5; Isa 50:10
La 3:21-26; 2Co 1:9,10
my prayer.
2Ch 30:27; Ps 18:6
holy.
4; Ps 11:4; 65:4; Mic 1:2; Hab 2:20

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Context

  • Jonah 2:6

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

  • Jonah 2:7

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

  • Jonah 2:8

    They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Jonah 2:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Descendí á las raíces de los montes; la tierra echó sus cerraduras sobre mí para siempre: mas tú sacaste mi vida de la sepultura, oh Jehová Dios mío.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je suis descendu jusqu’aux fondements des montagnes; les barres de la terre s’étaient fermées sur moi pour toujours; mais, ô Éternel, mon Dieu, tu as fait remonter ma vie de la fosse.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich fuhr hinab zu den Gründen der Berge; der Erde Riegel waren hinter mir auf ewig. Da führtest du mein Leben aus der Grube herauf, Jehova, mein Gott.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ad extrema montium descendi; terræ vectes concluserunt me in æternum: et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam, Domine Deus meus.