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Jonah 2:4

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2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

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

5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

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.

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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

    For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

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  • Psalms 5:7

    But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

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  • 2 Chronicles 6:38

    If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

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  • Isaiah 38:17

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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  • 1 Kings 8:38–39

    What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

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  • Daniel 6:10

    Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

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  • Jeremiah 7:15

    And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

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  • Isaiah 38:10–14

    I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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