Jona 2:7

Lutherbibel

Da meine Seele bei mir verzagte, gedachte ich an den HERRN; und mein Gebet kam zu dir in deinen heiligen Tempel.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Zu den Gründen der Berge sank ich hinunter; die Erde war auf ewig hinter mir verriegelt; - da hast du, Herr , mein Gott, mein Leben aus dem Verderben geführt!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my soul: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 27:13, Psalms 119:81-83, Hebrews 12:3

I remembered: 1 Samuel 30:6, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 43:5, Psalms 77:10, Psalms 77:11, Psalms 143:5, Isaiah 50:10, Lamentations 3:21-26, 2 Corinthians 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:10

my prayer: 2 Chronicles 30:27, Psalms 18:6

holy: Jonah 2:4, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 65:4, Micah 1:2, Habakkuk 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 45:26 - And Jacob's Judges 16:28 - remember me 2 Samuel 22:7 - out Psalms 6:9 - hath heard Psalms 31:22 - nevertheless Psalms 42:6 - therefore Luke 18:1 - and not James 5:13 - any among

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When my soul fainted within me,.... Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his sins; and under a sense of the wrath and displeasure of God, and being forsaken by him:

I remembered the Lord; his covenant and promises, his former mercies and lovingkindness, the gracious experiences he had had of these in times past; he remembered he was a God gracious and merciful, and ready to forgive, healed the backslidings of his people, and still loved them freely, and tenderly received and embraced them, when they returned to him:

and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple; into heaven itself, the habitation of God's holiness, the temple where he dwells, and is worshipped by holy angels and glorified saints; the prayer the prophet put up in the fish's belly, encouraged to it by remembering the mercy and goodness of God, ascended from thence, and reached the ears of the Lord of hosts in the highest heavens, and met with a kind reception, and had a gracious answer; see Psalms 3:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When my sold fainted - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jonah 4:8. thirst, Amos 8:13. exhaustion, Isaiah 51:20. when a film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over. The soul of the pious never is so full of God, as when all things else fade from him. Jonah could not but have remembered God in the tempest; when the lots were east; when he adjudged himself to be east forth. But when it came to the utmost, then he says, “I remembered the Lord,” as though, in the intense thought of God then, all his former thought of God had been forgetfulness. So it is in every strong act of faith, of love, of prayer; its former state seems unworthy of the name of faith, love, prayer. It believes, loves, prays, as though all before had been forgetfulness.

And my prayer came in unto Thee - No sooner had he so prayed, than God heard. Jonah had thought himself cast out of His sight; but his prayer entered in there. “His holy temple” is doubtless His actual temple, toward which he prayed. God, Who is wholly everywhere but the whole of Him nowhere, was as much in the temple as in heaven; and He had manifested Himself to Israel in their degree in the temple, as to the blessed saints and angels in heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 2:7. When my soul fainted — When I had given up all hope of life.

My prayer came in unto thee — Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into the temple of God, and standing before him. This is a very fine and delicate image. This clause is one of those which I suppose the prophet to have added when he penned this prayer.