Jona 2:1

Lutherbibel

Und Jona betete zu dem HERRN, seinem Gott, im Leibe des Fisches.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und der Herr bestellte einen großen Fisch, Jona zu verschlingen; und Jona war im Bauche des Fisches drei Tage und drei Nächte lang.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

prayed: 2 Chronicles 33:11-13, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Isaiah 26:16, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1-3, James 5:13

out: Job 13:15, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Lamentations 3:53-56, Acts 16:24, Acts 16:25

Reciprocal: Judges 16:28 - remember me 1 Kings 22:32 - Jehoshaphat Job 5:8 - seek Job 16:16 - on my eyelids Psalms 77:2 - In the Isaiah 38:9 - writing Mark 5:19 - Go home Acts 9:11 - for 1 Timothy 2:8 - pray

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly. Though Jonah had been a praying man, being a good man, and a prophet of the Lord, yet it seems he had not prayed for some time; being disobedient to the will of God, he restrained prayer before him; all the while he was going to Joppa he prayed not; and how indeed could he have the face to pray to him, from whose face he was fleeing? and as soon as he was in the ship he fell asleep, and there lay till he was waked by the shipmaster, who called upon him to arise, and pray to his God; but whether he did or no is not said; and though it is very probable he might, when convicted of his sin, and before he was cast into the sea, and as he was casting into it; his not recorded; but when he was in the fish's belly, "then [he] prayed"; where it is marvellous he should, or could; it was strange he should be able to breathe, and more strange to breathe spiritually; it was very wonderful he should have the exercise of his reason, and more that he should have the exercise of grace, as faith and hope, as it appears by the following prayer he had. Prayer may be performed any where, on a mountain, in a desert, in the caves and dens of the earth, and in a prison, as it has been; but this is the only time it ever was performed in such a place. Jonah is the only man that ever prayed in a fish's belly: and he prayed unto the Lord as "his God", not merely by creation, and as the God of nature and providence, the God of his life, and of his mercies; but as his covenant God and Father; for though he had sinned against the Lord, and had been sorely chastised by him, yet he did not take his lovingkindness from him, nor suffer his faithfulness to fail, or break his covenant with him; covenant interest and relation still continued; and Jonah had knowledge of it, and faith in it; and as this is an argument the Lord makes use of to engage backsliders to return unto him, it is a great encouragement to them so to do, Jeremiah 3:14. In this Jonah was a type of Christ, who, amidst his agonies, sorrows, and sufferings, prayed to his Father, and claimed his interest in him as his God, Hebrews 5:7. What follows contains the sam and substance of the prophet's thoughts, and the ejaculations of his mind, when in the fish's belly; but were not put up in this form, but were reduced by him into it after he was delivered; as many of David's psalms were put into the form and order they are after his deliverance from troubles, suitable to his thoughts of things when he was in them; and indeed the following account is an historical narration of facts, which were before and after his prayer, as well as of that itself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then - (“And”) Jonah prayed, i. e., when the three days and nights were passed, he uttered this devotion. The word “prayed” includes thanksgiving, not petition only. It is said of Hannah that she “prayed” 1 Samuel 2:1; but her canticle is all one thanksgiving without a single petition. In this thanksgiving Jonah says how his prayers had been heard, but prays no more. God had delivered him from the sea, and be thanks God, in the fish’s belly, as undisturbed as in a Church or an oratory, secure that God, who had done so much, would fulfill the rest. He called God, “his” God, who had in so many ways shown Himself to be His, by His revelations, by His inspirations, by His chastisements, and now by His mercy . “From these words, ‘Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,’ we perceive that, after he felt himself safe in the fish’s belly, he despaired not of God’s mercy.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

This chapter (except the first verse and the last, which make

a part of the narrative) contains a beautiful prayer or hymn,

formed of those devout thoughts which Jonah had in the belly

of the great fish, with a thanksgiving for his miraculous

deliverance.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse Jonah 2:1. Then Jonah prayed - out of the fish's belly — This verse makes the first of the second chapter in the Hebrew text.

It may be asked, "How could Jonah either pray or breathe in the stomach of the fish?" Very easily, if God so willed it. And let the reader keep this constantly in view; the whole is a miracle, from Jonah's being swallowed by the fish till he was cast ashore by the same animal. It was God that had prepared the great fish. It was the Lord that spake to the fish, and caused it to vomit Jonah upon the dry land. ALL is miracle.