1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. …
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. …
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)God and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on Jonah’s side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work; but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation begins on God’s side. In the close of the foregoing chapter we found God returning to Jonah in a way of mercy, delivering him from going down to the pit , having found a ransom ; in this cha…
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