George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jonah 2:2
Prayed. He entertained these sentiments. (Sanct. xiv.) --- He afterwards wrote them down. (Calmet)
Prayed. He entertained these sentiments. (Sanct. xiv.) --- He afterwards wrote them down. (Calmet)
Verse Jonah 2:2. _OUT OF THE BELLY OF HELL_] Among the Hebrews שאול _sheol_ means the _grave_, any _deep pit_, the _place of separate spirits_, c. Here the prophet represents himself as in the _bottom...
I CRIED BY REASON OF MINE AFFLICTION - , or, “out of affliction” which came “to me.” So the Psalmist thanked God in the same words, though in a different order ; “To the Lord in trouble to me I called...
CHAPTER 2 Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance _ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _ 2. The deliverance (John 2:10) John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered u...
THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...
CRIED. cried out. Not the same word as in the next clause, or in Jonah 1:5. but the same as in Jonah 1:2; Jonah 1:5; Jonah 1:14. HEARD. answered. Hebrew. anah
_and said_ The prayer which follows falls naturally into three parts or divisions. In each of these the two elements of danger and deliverance, of need and help, appear. But they enter into them in ve...
_JONAH'S SAD SITUATION IN LIFE -- JONAH 2:1-3:_ Running from God caused Jonah to find himself in a horrible state. He was in the fish's belly. Imagine the horrors that you would feel being in the guts...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRAYER OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:1-6 1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly. 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jeh...
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. I CRIED BY REASON OF MINE AFFLICTION UNTO THE LORD, AND...
HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror inspired by the sea in the minds of a...
OUT OF THE BELLY OF HELL] hell=Sheol, the realm of the dead, thought of here as a devouring monster. The phrase is purely pictorial: cp. 'from the jaws of death.' 3. Both parts of this v. are echoes...
THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...
BY REASON OF MINE AFFLICTION. — See margin. There is a close correspondence between this opening and that of Psalms 120 Comp. also Psalms 18:6. OUT OF THE BELLY OF HELL. — This remarkable expression —...
_[Jonah 2:3]_ וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר קָ֠רָאתִי מִ צָּ֥רָה...
THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1 AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish thre...
A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS John 1:17; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To pl...
In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly (b) of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice. (b) For he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave...
Let the Reader here learn, and learn with trembling, that sin will bring trouble even to God's dear children. So runs the charter in the covenant of grace. Psalms 89:30. Learn also, that it is nothing...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
Jonah the Penitent I. INTRODUCTION A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the "great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning - but before we do, I woul...
Then he says,_I cried, when I had trouble, to Jehovah, and he answered me. _Jonah no doubt relates now, after having come forth from the bowels of the fish, what had happened to him, and he gives than...
We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among the...
AND SAID,.... Not unto the Lord in prayer, but to others, to whom he communicated what passed between God and him in this time of distress; how he prayed to him, and was heard by him; what a condition...
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice. Ver. 2. _And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction_...
_Then Jonah prayed_ Those devout thoughts and feelings which he had at that time, he afterward digested into the following prayer, and added a thanksgiving for his deliverance at the end of it. So sev...
and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction, out of the midst of the distress which he was suffering, UNTO THE LORD, AND HE HEARD ME; OUT OF THE BELLY OF HELL, literally, "out of the womb of sheol,...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From this we see, as Lut...
BY REASON OF MINE AFFLICTION: Or, out of mine affliction HELL: Or, the grave...
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 sen...
AND SAID: the former verse was a general account that he prayed, this word in the front of this verse is a transition to a more full account of his prayer, what for substance, and somewhat of the word...
Jonah 2:2 said H559 (H8799) cried H7121 (H8804) LORD H3068 affliction H6869 answered H6030 (H8799) belly...
‘And he said, “I called by reason of my affliction to YHWH, And he answered me, Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, You heard my voice.” As he sank into the sea after being hurled from the deck Jon...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restitu...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...
Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly._ What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...
CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...
Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....
_I cried by reason of mine affliction._ TROUBLES AND DELIVERANCE I. The fact of trouble. Jonah is at one with all men in a common experience of trouble. No child of God is born to a heritage of unmit...
_And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._ THE RETURN TO GOD The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:2 SHEOL refers to the realm of the dead. Jonah did not literally pray from Sheol but describes his near-death experience (see Psalms 30:2)....
CRITICAL NOTES. PRAYED] Really praised. HIS] not only to Jehovah as the sailors did. “He shows his _faith_ by adoring Him as _his_ God” [_Burk_], The structure of this hymn, composed like many Psalms,...
EXPOSITION JONAH 2:1 Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. JONAH 2:1 1. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which h
CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the st...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1), Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...
1 Samuel 1:16; 1 Samuel 30:6; Acts 2:27; Genesis 32:24; Genesis 32:7;
JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION Jonah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...
Affliction — Straits with which he was encompassed, his body and mind being both shut up, the one by the monstrous dungeon of the fish's belly, and the other by the terrors of the Almighty. Heardest m...