6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. …
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-10)When Jonah was set on ship-board, and under sail for Tarshish, he thought himself safe enough; but here we find him pursued and overtaken, discovered and convicted as a deserter from God, as one that had run his colours . I. God sends a pursuer after him, a mighty tempest in the sea , Jonah 1:4. God has the winds in his treasure (Ps. 135:7), and out of these treasures God sent forth , he cast fort…
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