Then I said, I am cast out of Thy sight, cut off from the gracious experience of God's favor; yet I will look again toward Thy holy Temple, certain that he would again be permitted to worship with the Lord's people.
Verse Jonah 2:4. _I AM CAST OUT OF THY SIGHT_] See Psalms 31:22. _THY HOLY TEMPLE._] Then Jerusalem was not yet destroyed, for the _temple_ was standing....
I AM CAST OUT OF THY SIGHT - , literally, “from before Thine eyes.” Jonah had willfully withdrawn from standing in God’s presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of...
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...
THEN SAID, &c. Compare Psa 81:22 TOWARD, &c. Compare 1 Kings 8:38. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....
_Then I said_, &c. The first clause of this verse may, perhaps, be a reminiscence of the first clause of Psalms 31:22 (Heb. 23), though there the words "in my haste" are added, and a different verb (...
_LOOKING TOWARD GOD'S HOLY TEMPLE -- JONAH 2:4-6:_ Jonah realized that he had left God's holy presence. He promised that he would look again toward God's holy temple and remember Him. Jonah said that...
THEN I SAID, I AM CAST OUT, &C.— "My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour for my disobedience, so thou wouldst cast me out of thy protection. But, upon recollecting myse...
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...
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. THEN I SAID, I AM CAST OUT OF THY SIGHT - i:e., from thy favourable regard. A just retribution on one who had...
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...
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...
I AM CAST OUT OF THY SIGHT. — “Jonah had wilfully withdrawn from standing in God’s presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of it. David had said in his haste, “I a...
_[Jonah 2:5]_ וַ אֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי מִ...
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...
Then I said, I am (c) cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. (c) This declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect...
The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...
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...
In the first clause of this verse Jonah confirms again what I have said, — that when he sought to pray, not only the door was closed against him, but there were mountains, as it were, intervening, so...
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...
THEN I SAID, I AM CAST OUT OF THY SIGHT,.... Or, "from before thine eyes" d; the Targum, from before thy Word; as David also said in his distress, Psalms 31:22; not but that he knew he was in the reac...
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. Ver. 4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight_] Thus those straits brought him to these disputes of despair,...
_Then I said, I am cast out_, &c. “My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou wouldest cast me out of thy protection; yet, upon recollecting mys...
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...
THEN: though this word with us ordinarily denoteth time, yet here it denoteth order and connexion; the Hebrew is _And. I said_, with myself, I thought in the midst of my fears and sufferings. I AM CAS...
Jonah 2:4 said H559 (H8804) out H1644 (H8738) sight H5869 look H5027 (H8687) again H3254 (H
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...
“And I said, ‘I am cast out from before your eyes, Yet I will look again towards your holy temple.” And his first thoughts as he viewed approaching death was that he had been cast out from before YHW...
John 2:4 Hindrances and aids to prayer. I. Prayer is founded on knowledge and prayer is prompted by desire. If then for knowledge there be error, and if instead of desire there be coldness, then is p...
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....
_Yet will I look again toward Thy holy temple._ THE BACKSLIDER’S VOW The leading feature of the story is that of one man sacrificed for the rest of the crew: it is the execution of the culprit, in a...
_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 2:3 YOU CAST ME. Jonah knew that God was working sovereignly through the sailors (Jonah 1:15)....
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 Kings 8:38; 1 Kings 8:39; 1 Kings 8:42; 1 Kings 8:48; 1 Kings 9:7;...
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...
I said — With myself, I thought in the midst of my fears and sufferings. Cast out — Cut off from all hope of life, and as it were forgotten of God. I will look — Toward heaven....