Jonah 2:4

Translations

Modern

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Traditional

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

Literal

And I said, ‘I have been driven out from before Your eyes; yet I will add to look toward the temple of Your holiness.’

Latin

Et ego dixi: Abjectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum; verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum.

Original

Hebrew

English

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Notes

Jonah 2:4

As Jonah was about to drown, he called out for help, life, and God's renewed presence. It is ironic that Jonah mentioned God driving him away, as Jonah himself aimed to flee to Tarshish (Jonah 1:3).
I will look once more: Jonah was either confident he would be rescued and worship again in the temple in Jerusalem, or he was calling to the Lord in his temple from the sea (compare Jonah 2:7).

Jonah 2:1–9

Jonah realized that the Lord had kindly saved him by sending the fish. He then created a prayer similar to a psalm. The prayer's careful structure follows the pattern of a personal song of thanks. This suggests Jonah may have written it after the event, as he remembered his feelings and worries.

Theme notes and profiles

God Works through Prayer

Events

Prophecies of Jonahc. 825 BC

Related verses

Psalm 31:22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Psalm 5:7
But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
2 Chronicles 6:38
…and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
Isaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
1 Kings 8:38–39
…then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
Jeremiah 7:15
And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
Isaiah 38:10–14
I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
1 Kings 8:42
…for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
1 Kings 9:7
…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
1 Kings 8:48
…and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

Glossary

Book of Jonah

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of, Illustrated Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Backsliders: General Scriptures Concerning Church: Holy Temple Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning Repentance: Jonah, After his Punishment Temple: Solomon's: Prayer Made Toward

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