Jonah 2:4

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And, I, said, I am driven out from before thine eyes, - Yet will I again have regard unto thy holy temple:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But I said, “I have been banishedfrom your sight,yet I will look once moretoward your holy temple.

Hebrew Names Version
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

King James Version (1611)
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will looke againe toward thy holy Temple.

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

English Standard Version
Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.'

New American Standard Bible
"So I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

New Century Version
I said, ‘I was driven out of your presence, but I hope to see your Holy Temple again.'

Amplified Bible
"Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I saide, I am cast away out of thy sight: yet will I looke againe towarde thine holy Temple.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

Legacy Standard Bible
So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight.Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

Berean Standard Bible
At this, I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.'

Contemporary English Version
I thought I was swept away from your sight, never again to see your holy temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
For you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the flood enveloped me; all your surging waves passed over me.

Darby Translation
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then I thought, ‘Now I must go where you cannot see me,' but I continued looking to your holy Temple for help.

George Lamsa Translation
Then I said, I am cast afar out of thy sight; yet now I will see again thy holy temple.

Good News Translation
I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

Lexham English Bible
And I said, ‘I am banished from your sight; how will I continue to look on your holy temple?'

Literal Translation
And I said, I am cast off from Your eyes; yet I will again look to Your holy temple.

American Standard Version
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Bible in Basic English
And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I saide: I am cast away out of thy sight, yet wyll I loke againe toward thyne holy temple.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.

English Revised Version
And I said, am cast out from before thine eyes; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

World English Bible
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y seide, Y am cast awei fro siyt of thin iyen; netheles eftsoone Y schal see thin hooli temple.

Update Bible Version
And I said, I am cast out from before your eyes; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.

New English Translation
I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

New King James Version
Then I said, "I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

New Living Translation
Then I said, ‘O Lord , you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.'

New Life Bible
Then I said, ‘I have been sent away from Your eyes. But I will look again toward Your holy house.'

New Revised Standard
Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?'

Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-5) And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again.

Revised Standard Version
Then I said, 'I am cast out from thy presence; how shall I again look upon thy holy temple?'

Young's Literal Translation
And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I thought that I had bene cast awaye out of thy sight: but I wil yet agayne loke towarde thy holy temple.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then prayed Jonah, unto Yahweh, his God, - out of the belly of the fish; ² and said - I cried - out of my distress - unto Yahweh, and he answered me, - Out of the belly of hades, called I, Thou didst hear my voice. ³ For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed. ⁴ And, I, said, I am driven out from before thine eyes, - Yet will I again have regard unto thy holy temple: ⁵ The waters, encompassed me, to the peril of my life, The roaring deep, enveloped me, - The sea-weed, was wrapped about my head: ⁶ To the roots of the mountains, went I down, As for the earth, her bars, were about me, age-abidingly, - Then didst thou bring up - out of the pit - my life, O Yahweh my God. ⁷ When my soul, darkened itself over me, Yahweh, I remembered, - and my prayer, came in unto thee, unto thy holy temple. ⁸ They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake. ⁹ But, I, with the voice of praise, will sacrifice unto thee, What I have vowed, I will pay, - Salvation, belongeth to Yahweh!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I said: Psalms 31:22, Psalms 77:1-7, Isaiah 38:10-14, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 49:14, Ezekiel 37:11

out: 1 Kings 9:7, Jeremiah 7:15, Jeremiah 15:1

toward: 1 Kings 8:38, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Kings 8:42, 1 Kings 8:48, 2 Chronicles 6:38, Psalms 5:7, Daniel 6:10

Reciprocal: Judges 10:15 - do thou 2 Samuel 22:7 - out 2 Chronicles 20:12 - our eyes Psalms 30:3 - brought Lamentations 3:39 - a man Jonah 2:7 - holy Habakkuk 2:20 - the Lord Luke 15:18 - will arise

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was, good, and God divided the light, from the, darkness;

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, - and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing which he had made, and lo! it was very good. So it was evening - and it was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
Thus were finished the heavens and the earth and all their host.

Genesis 2:2
Thus God finished, on the seventh day his work which he had made, and rested, on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 5:1
This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:

Genesis 10:1
Now, these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and there were born to them sons after the flood.

Genesis 11:10
These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood

Genesis 25:12
Now, these, are the generations of Ishmael son of Abraham, - whom hagar the Egyptian woman the handmaid of Sarah bare to Abraham;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight,.... Or, "from before thine eyes" d; the Targum, from before thy Word; as David also said in his distress, Psalms 31:22; not but that he knew he was in the reach and under the eye of his omniscience, which saw him in the fish's belly, in the depths of the sea, for nothing can hide from that; but he thought he was no longer under the eye of his providence; and that he would no more care for him, but leave him in this forlorn condition, and not deliver him; and especially he concluded that he would no more look upon him with an eye of love, grace, and mercy, pity and compassion: these are the words of one in despair, or near unto it; and yet a beam of light, a ray of hope, breaks in, and a holy resolution is formed, as follows:

yet I will look again toward thy holy temple; not the temple at Jerusalem, towards which men used to look when they prayed, being at a distance from it, 1 Kings 8:29; though there may be an allusion to such a practice; for it can hardly be thought that Jonah, in the fish's belly, could tell which way the temple stood; and look towards that; but he looked upwards and heavenwards; he looked up to God in his holy temple in heaven; and though he was afraid he would not look down upon him in a way of grace and mercy, he was resolved to look up to God in the way of prayer and supplication; and particularly, for the further encouragement of his faith and hope, he looked to the Messiah, the antitype of the temple, ark, and mercy seat, and for whose sake he might hope his prayers would be heard and answered.

d מנגד עיניך "e regione oculorum tuorum", Montanus, Piscator; "a coram oculis tuis", Drusius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am cast out of Thy sight - , literally, “from before Thine eyes.” Jonah had willfully withdrawn from standing in God’s presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of it. David had said in his haste, “I am cut off.” Jonah substitutes the stronger word, “I am cast forth,” driven forth, expelled, like the “mire and dirt” Isaiah 57:20 which the waves drive along, or like the waves themselves in their restless motion Isaiah 57:20, or the pagan (the word is the same) whom God had driven out before Israel (Exodus 34:11, and the Piel often), or as Adam from Paradise Genesis 3:24.

Yet (Only) I will look again - He was, as it were, a castaway, cast out of God’s sight, unheeded by Him, his prayers unheard; the storm unabated, until he was cast forth. He could no longer look with the physical eye even toward the land where God showed the marvels of His mercy, and the temple where God was worshiped continually. Yet what he could not do in the body, he would do in his soul. This was his only resource. “If I am cast away, this one thing will I do, I will still look to God.” Magnificent faith! Humanly speaking, all hope was gone, for, when that huge vessel could scarcely live in the sea, how should a man? When God had given it no rest, while it contained Jonah, how should tie will that Jonah should escape? Nay, God had hidden His Face from him; yet he did this one, this only thing only this, “once more, still I will add to look to God.” Thitherward would he look, so long as his mind yet remained in him.

If his soul parted from him, it should go forth from him in that gaze. God gave him no hope, save that He preserved him alive. For he seemed to himself forsaken of God. Wonderful pattern of faith which gains strength even from God’s seeming desertion! “I am cast vehemently forth from before Thine eyes; yet this one thing will I do; mine eyes shrill be unto Thee, O Lord.” The Israelites, as we see from Solomon’s dedication prayer, “prayed toward the temple,” (1 Kings 8:29-30, 1 Kings 8:35 ff) where God had set His Name and shown His glory, where were the sacrifices which foreshadowed the great atonement. Thitherward they looked in prayer, as Christians, of old, prayed toward the East, the seat of our ancient Paradise. where our Lord “shall appear unto them that look for Him, a second time unto salvation.” Hebrews 9:28. Toward that temple then he would yet look with fixed eye for help, where God, Who fills heaven and earth, showed Himself to sinners reconciled.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 2:4. I am cast out of thy sight — See Psalms 31:22.

Thy holy temple. — Then Jerusalem was not yet destroyed, for the temple was standing.