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 in other translations
| BSB | As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple. |
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| WEB | “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. |
| ASV | When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. |
| YLT | In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple. |
| DARBY | When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple. |
| BBE | When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple. |
| Webster | When 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
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Jonah 2:7 in the original Hebrew
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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
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.
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. |
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| 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. |