Jonah Chapter 2
From The Open Bible Project
2:1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
- (a) Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him.
2:2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of [5] Sheol [See Jonah Footnotes 5] I cried. You heard my voice.
- (b) For he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave or place of darkness.
2:3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
2:4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
- (c) This declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God’s judgments for it: but yet in the end faith gained the victory.
2:5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
- (d) You have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.
2:7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
2:8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- (e) Those that depend upon anything except on God alone.
- (f) They refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they would otherwise receive from God.
2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
2:10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
