Jonah 2:4 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Then I thought, 'I have been banished from your sight. Will I ever see your holy temple again?'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

ASV:

And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

BBE:

And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

DBY:

And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.

ERV:

And I said, am cast out from before thine eyes; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

JPS:

And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.

WBS:

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.

WEB:

I said,'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

YLT:

And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Jonah 2:4 Cross References

XREF:

1 Kings 8:38 whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;

2 Chronicles 6:38 if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,

Psalm 5:7 But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house, At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.

Psalm 31:22 As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before Your eyes"; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to You.

Jeremiah 7:15 "I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:4 Then I said, I am {c} cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy 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.

WES:

2:4 I said - With myself, I thought in the midst of my fears and sufferings. Cast out - Cut off from all hope of life, and as it were forgotten of God. I will look - Toward heaven.

MHC:

2:1-9 Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men may shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with God. To whom he prayed; to the Lord his God. This encourages even backsliders to return. What his prayer was. This seems to relate his experience and reflections, then and afterwards, rather than to be the form or substance of his prayer. Jonah reflects on the earnestness of his prayer, and God's readiness to hear and answer. If we would get good by our troubles, we must notice the hand of God in them. He had wickedly fled from the presence of the Lord, who might justly take his Holy Spirit from him, never to visit him more. Those only are miserable, whom God will no longer own and favour. But though he was perplexed, yet not in despair. Jonah reflects on the favour of God to him, when he sought to God, and trusted in him in his distress. He warns others, and tells them to keep close to God. Those who forsake their own duty, forsake their own mercy; those who run away from the work of their place and day, run away from the comfort of it. As far as a believer copies those who observe lying vanities, he forsakes his own mercy, and lives below his privileges. But Jonah's experience encourages others, in all ages, to trust in God, as the God of salvation.

CONC:

Add Banished Cast Expelled Holy Nevertheless Presence Sight Temple Towards Yet

Add Banished Cast Expelled Eyes Holy Nevertheless Presence Sight Temple Towards

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