Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jonah 2:5
The weeds — It seems to mean, my case was as hopeless as that of a man wrapt about with weeds in the depth of the sea.
The weeds — It seems to mean, my case was as hopeless as that of a man wrapt about with weeds in the depth of the sea.
Verse Jonah 2:5. _THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT_ EVEN _TO THE SOUL_] So as to seem to deprive me of life. I had no hope left. _THE WEEDS WERE WRAPPED ABOUT MY HEAD._] This may be understood literally...
THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT EVEN TO THE SOUL - Words which to others were figures of distress (Psalms 69:2. See the introduction to Jonah), “the waters have come even to the soul,” were to Jonah rea...
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...
WATERS. Compare Psalms 69:1. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13. DEPTH. an abyss. WEEDS. floating sea-weeds....
_compassed me about_ It would be better, perhaps, to render SURROUNDED ME, in order to show that this is a different word from that in Jonah 2:3, and then in the second clause of this verse, where the...
_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...
THE WATERS COMPASSED ME, &C.— Jonah, as we have before observed, speaks this in the bowels of the fish; therefore they seem to mistake the matter, who say that Jonah speaks this in the midst of the se...
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...
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT, EVEN TO THE SOUL - i:e., threatening to extin...
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...
_EVEN_ TO THE SOUL] cp. Psalms 69:1. The meaning is that the waters so press in that life itself is threatened. THE WEEDS] Floating sea-weed entangles him as he sinks....
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...
THE WATERS. — See reference in margin. THE WEEDS WERE WRAPPED ABOUT MY HEAD. — This graphic touch is quite original. The figure of overwhelming waters is a common one in Hebrew song to represent some...
_[Jonah 2:6]_ אֲפָפ֤וּנִי מַ֨יִם֙ עַד ־נֶ֔פֶשׁ תְּהֹ֖ום...
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...
_Eyes, in a sort of despair, like the psalmist, xxx. 23. Yet he presently resumes fresh confidence in God, notwithstanding the greatness of his offences. --- Temple. He went to Jerusalem, like other g...
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...
Here in many words Jonah relates how many things had happened to him, which were calculated to overwhelm his mind with terror and to drive him far from God, and to take away every desire for prayer. B...
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...
THE WATERS COMPASSED ME ABOUT, [EVEN] TO THE SOUL,.... Either when he was first cast into the sea, which almost suffocated him, and just ready to take away his life, could not breathe for them, as is...
The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. Ver. 5. _The waters compassed me about, even to the soul_] That is, _usque ad...
_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...
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul, so that he was ready to despair of his life, Cf Psalms 18:5; Psalms 69:2; THE DEPTH CLOSED ME ROUND ABOUT, THE WEEDS WERE WRAPPED ABOUT MY HEAD, appare...
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...
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...
The former part of this verse seems to be an ingeminating of what was said JONAH 2:3, and bears the self-same meaning and interpretation. THE WATERS; literally, the waters of the sea; metaphorically,...
Jonah 2:5 waters H4325 surrounded H661 (H8804) soul H5315 deep H8415 around H5437 (H8779) Weeds H5488 around...
“The waters compassed me about, Even to the soul, The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.” But his awful experience had gone on. (God does not always step in immediately...
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...
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....
_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...
CRITICAL NOTES. JONAH 2:5] This strophe opens like the first, sets forth the peril of death, and describes the thought of miraculous deliverance. SURROUNDED] Pressed even to the soul (Psalms 69:2; Psa...
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...
Lamentations 3:54; Psalms 40:2; Psalms 69:1; Psalms 69:2...
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...