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Jonah’s Prayer

Jonah 2:4

In 11 translations

BSB
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
KJV
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
WEB
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
ASV
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
LSV
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes || (Yet I add to look to 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!)
DBY
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
DRC2:5
And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.
GNV
Then I saide, I am cast away out of thy sight: yet will I looke againe towarde thine holy Temple.
JPS2:5
And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.
LXXE2:5
And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC2:5
וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינֶ֑יךָ אַ֚ךְ אוֹסִ֣יף לְהַבִּ֔יט אֶל־הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃KJV:Jonah.2.4
LXX-Br2:5
Καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπα, ἀπῶσμαι ἐξ ὀφθαλμῶν σου· ἆρα προσθήσω τοῦ ἐπιβλέψαι με πρὸς ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου;

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Part of

  • Jonah and the great fish Jonah flees God's call to Nineveh; thrown overboard, he is swallowed by a great fish and returned to land. Sent again, he warns the city; it…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
  • Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
  • 2 Chronicles 6:38and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and…
  • Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
  • Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
  • Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to…
  • 1 Kings 8:38–39then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple— be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and…
  • 1 Kings 8:42for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
  • Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
  • Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
  • Psalms 77:1–7I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me. In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered You, O God, and I…
  • Isaiah 38:10–14I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer…
  • 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
  • Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  • 1 Kings 8:48and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have…

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  • 2:4 in most Bibles

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