Verse Jonah 2:7. When my soul fainted] When I had given up all hope of life.
My prayer came in unto thee] Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into the temple of God, and standing before him. This is a very fine and delicate image. This clause is one of those which I suppose the prophet to have added when he penned this prayer.
WHEN MY SOLD FAINTED - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jonah 4:8. thirst, Amos 8:13. exhaustion, Isaiah 51:20. when a fi...
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...
FAINTED. swooned, or became unconscious to all else. Compare Psalms 77:3.Lamentations 2:12, From _'ataph,_ to cover or involve in darkness. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ (with 'eth). Jehovah Him-self....
_fainted_ Lit., COVERED ITSELF; with reference to the film and darkness that comes over eye and mind in fainting and exhaustion. Comp. Psalms 142:3; Psalms 107:5, where the same Heb. word occurs. _thi...
_JONAH REMEMBERED THE LORD -- JONAH 2:7-9:_ Jonah's declaration was simple, "When my life was slipping away, I remembered you -- and in your holy temple you heard my prayer. All who worship worthless...
DISCOURSE: 1200 JONAH’S REFLECTIONS IN THE WHALE’S BELLY John 2:7. _When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe ly...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PROMISE OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:7-9 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8 They that reg...
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. WHEN MY SOUL FAINTED WITHIN ME I REMEMBERED THE LORD - beautifully exemplifying the tr...
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...
Cp. Psalms 107:5; Psalms 142:3 mg. Psalms 18:6....
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...
FAINTED. — Literally, _covered itself._ Comp. Jonah 4:8. (See Psalms 61:2; Psalms 142:3; Psalms 143:4, where the same Hebrew word is rendered overwhe
_[Jonah 2:8]_ בְּ הִתְעַטֵּ֤ף עָלַי֙ נַפְשִׁ֔י אֶת...
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...
_Lowest. Hebrew and Septuagint, "clefts." --- Bars, or prisons, in the abyss, (Calmet) farthest from the heights. (Worthington)_...
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 Jonah comprehends in one verse what he had previously said, — that he had been distressed with the heaviest troubles, but that he had not yet been so cast down in his mind, as that he had no pros...
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...
WHEN MY SOUL FAINTED WITHIN ME,.... Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his sins; and under a sense of the wrath and displeasure of God, and being fors...
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. Ver. 7. _When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord_] And could say, as the C...
_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...
When my soul fainted within me, when he was at the point of yielding to the night of death, I REMEMBERED THE LORD; AND MY PRAYER CAME IN UNTO THEE, like a petitioner presenting his appeal in person, I...
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...
WHEN, so soon as, and so often as, MY SOUL FAINTED WITHIN ME, my heart was perplexed with variety of fears, sorrows, temptations, and difficulties; whenever I did forecast, and devise what way I might...
Jonah 2:7 soul H5315 fainted H5848 (H8692) remembered H2142 (H8804) LORD H3068 prayer H8605 went H935 ...
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...
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered YHWH, And my prayer came in to you, Into your holy temple. In his desperation he had remembered YHWH, and he had prayed to YHWH towards His holy Templ...
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....
_When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord._ JONAH AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION It is interesting to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the strong billows of afflicti...
_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 2:7. FAINTED] Heb. to cover one’s self or to veil, then to sink, to pine away: _Rem_. the triumph of faith over sense. TEMPLE] from which prayers are heard (Psalms 42:6; Psalms 7...
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 30:6; 2 Chronicles 30:27; 2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 1:9;...
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...
Thine holy temple — Heaven, the temple of his glory, whence God gives the command for his delivery....