Jonah 2:7 KJV — MannaFest

Jonah 2:7

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

KJV

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ASV

When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

WEB

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your 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.

DBT

When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.

About this book

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Jonah — A reluctant prophet fleeing from Nineveh, a storm, a great fish, a repentant city, and a bush. The only prophet whose book is entirely narrative — and whose complaint against God's mercy is the book's real subject.

Author: The book is anonymous; Jonah son of Amittai is the subject (1:1; cf. 2 Kings 14:25)
Date: Jonah's historical ministry c. 8th c. BC under Jeroboam II; book's composition disputed

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Luke 18:1
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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.
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Psalms 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
James 5:13
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

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Faith corrected and controlled the surmises of fear and distrust. Here was a fierce struggle between sense and faith, but faith had the last word and came off a conqueror. In trying times, the issue will be good at last, providing our faith do not fail; it was therefore the continuance of that in its vigour that Christ secured to Peter.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He remembered what he had done for him, what he had done for others, what he could do, what he had promised to do; and this kept him from fainting. Remembering God, he made his addresses to him: " My prayer came in unto thee; I sent it in, and expected to receive an answer to it." Note, Our afflictions should put us in mind of God, and thereby put us upon prayer to him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): My prayer, being sent to him, came in unto him, even into his holy temple; it was heard in the highest heavens, though it was prayed in the lowest deeps. (2.) He wonderfully wrought deliverance for him, and, when he was in the depth of his misery, gave him the earnest and assurance of it (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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JON 2:71SA 30:6 PSA 18:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JON 2:71SA 30:6 PSA 56:3-4
JON 2:71SA 30:6 PSA 56:11
JON 2:7PSA 18:6 PSA 50:15
JON 2:7PSA 18:6 2SA 22:7
JON 2:71SA 30:6 PSA 62:5
JON 2:7PSA 18:6 PSA 34:15
JON 2:71SA 30:6 PSA 27:1-3

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