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Jonah 2:4

LonelinessDiscouragement and depressionHopeGod's presence

2 saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

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

5 The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

6 To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

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BSB
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
KJV
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
WEB
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
ASV
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
DARBY
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
BLB
And I said, ‘I have been driven out from before Your eyes; yet I will add to look toward the temple of Your holiness.’
ÅB
Jeg tenkte: Jeg er støtt bort fra dine øyne. Men jeg skal igjen skue opp til ditt hellige tempel.
OTB
Jeg tenkte: ‘Jeg er drevet bort fra Ditt åsyn;
likevel vil jeg igjen se mot Ditt hellige tempel.’
B1930
Jeg tenkte: Jeg er støtt bort fra dine øine. Men jeg skal atter skue op til ditt hellige tempel.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 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.

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  • Psalms 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.

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  • 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,

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  • 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.

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  • 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—

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.”

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