Jonah 2:3-4

Jonah's Prayer

3 a For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
b all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 c Then I said, 'I am driven away
from your sight;
d yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.'

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 88:6 - 7
    You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 42:7
    Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 31:22
    I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:35
    When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them.
    1 Kings 8:38
    Whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house.
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