9And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
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Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: …
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. …
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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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