Jona 2:2

Lutherbibel

Und sprach: Ich rief zu dem HERRN in meiner Angst, und er antwortete mir; ich schrie aus dem Bauche der Hölle, und du hörtest meine Stimme.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und Jona flehte aus dem Bauch des Fisches zu dem Herrn , seinem Gott, und sprach:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I cried: Genesis 32:7-12, Genesis 32:24-28, 1 Samuel 30:6, Psalms 4:1, Psalms 18:4-6, Psalms 22:24, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 65:2, Psalms 120:1, Psalms 142:1-3, Luke 22:44, Hebrews 5:7

by reason of mine: or, out of mine, 1 Samuel 1:16

out: Psalms 18:5, Psalms 18:6, Psalms 61:2, Psalms 86:13, Psalms 88:1-7, Psalms 116:3

hell: or, the grave, Psalms 16:10, Isaiah 14:9, Matthew 12:40, Acts 2:27

and thou: Psalms 34:6, Psalms 65:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:5 - depths Judges 16:28 - remember me 1 Samuel 2:6 - he bringeth 2 Samuel 22:6 - sorrows 1 Kings 22:32 - Jehoshaphat Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 6:9 - hath heard Psalms 34:4 - sought Psalms 69:15 - waterflood Psalms 77:2 - In the Psalms 86:7 - General Psalms 130:1 - Out of Psalms 139:8 - in hell Lamentations 3:55 - General Daniel 4:34 - lifted Matthew 14:30 - Lord Luke 11:10 - General Luke 15:16 - no 1 Timothy 2:8 - pray James 5:13 - any among

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And said,.... Not unto the Lord in prayer, but to others, to whom he communicated what passed between God and him in this time of distress; how he prayed to him, and was heard by him; what a condition he had been in, and how he was delivered out of it; what was his frame of mind while in it, sometimes despairing, and sometimes hoping; and how thankful he was for this salvation, and was determined to praise the Lord for it:

I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; or, "out of my strait" a; being straitened in his body, and as it were in a prison in the fish's belly; and straitened in his soul, being between hope and despair, and under the apprehensions of the divine displeasure. A time of affliction is a time for prayer; it brings those to it that have disused it; it made Jonah cry to his God, if not with a loud voice, yet inwardly; and his cry was powerful and piercing, it reached the heavens, and entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts, though out of the depths, and out of the belly of a fish, in the midst of the sea:

out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice; or, "out of the belly of the grave" b; out of the midst of it; that is, out of the belly of the fish, which was as a grave to him, as Jarchi observes; where he lay as out of the land of the living, as one dead, and being given up for dead: and it may also respect the frame of his mind, the horror and terror lie was in, arising from a sense of his sins, and the apprehensions he had of the wrath of God, which were as a hell in his conscience; and amidst all this he cried to God, and he heard him; and not only delivered him from he fish's belly, but from those dreadful apprehensions he had of his state and condition; and spoke peace and pardon to him. This is a proof that this prayer or thanksgiving be it called which it will, was composed, as to the form and order of it, after his deliverance; and these words are an appeal to God for the truth of what he had said in the preceding clause, and not a repetition of it in prayer; or expressing the same thing in different words.

a מצרה "ex angustia mea", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ex arcto mihi", Cocceius. b מבטן שאול "e ventre sepulchri", Calvin, Piscator, Liveleus; "e ventre sepulchrali", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I cried by reason of mine affliction - , or, “out of affliction” which came “to me.” So the Psalmist thanked God in the same words, though in a different order ; “To the Lord in trouble to me I called, and He heard me.” He “called,” and God heard and answered , “He does not say, I “call,” but I “called”; he does not pray for the future, but gives thanks for the past.” Strange cause of thankfulness this would seem to most faith, to be alive in such a grave; to abide there hour after hour, and day after day, in one unchanging darkness, carried to and fro helplessly, with no known escape from his fetid prison, except to death! Yet spiritual light shone on that depth of darkness. The voracious creature, which never opened his mouth save to destroy life, had swallowed him, to save it . “What looked like death, became safe-keeping,” and so the prophet who had fled to avoid doing the will of God and to do his own, now willed to be carried about, he knew not where, at the will; as it seemed, of the huge animal in which he lay, but in truth, where God directed it, and he gave thanks. God had heard him. The first token of God’s mercy was the earnest of the whole. God was dealing with him, was looking on him. It was enough.

Out of the belly of hell cried I. - The deep waters were as a grave, and he was counted “among the dead” Psalms 88:4. Death seemed so certain that it was all one as if he were in the womb of hell, not to be reborn to life until the last Day. So David said Psalms 18:5, “The bands of death compassed me round about;” and Psalms 30:3, “Thou hast drawn my life out of hell.” The waters choked his speech; but he cried with a loud cry to God Who knew the heart. “I cried; Thou heardest.” The words vary only by a kindred letter . The real heart’s cry to God according to the mind of God and His hearing are one, whether, for man’s good, He seem at the time to hear or no.

“Not of the voice but of the heart is God the Hearer, as He is the Seer. Do the ears of God wait for sound? How then could the prayer of Jonah from the inmost belly of the whale, through the bowels of so great a creature, out of the very bottomless depths, through so great a mass of waters, make its way to heaven?” “Loud crying to God is not with the voice but with the heart. Many, silent with their lips, have cried aloud with their heart; many, noisy with their lips, could, with heart turned away, obtain nothing. If then thou criest, cry within, where God heareth.” “Jonah cried aloud to God out of the fish’s belly, out of the deep of the sea, out of the depths of disobedience; and his prayer reached to God, Who rescued him from the waves, brought him forth out of the vast creature, absolved him from the guilt. Let the sinner too cry aloud, whom, departing from God, the storm of desires overwhelmed, the malignant Enemy devoured, the waves of this present world sucked under! Let him own that he is in the depth, that so his prayer may reach to God.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 2:2. Out of the belly of hell — Among the Hebrews שאול sheol means the grave, any deep pit, the place of separate spirits, c. Here the prophet represents himself as in the bottom of the sea for so sheol must be understood in this place.