Jonah 2:2
And said, I dcried 1by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he eheard me; fout of the belly of 2hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
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.
d:
Lamentations 3:55 ¶I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Psalms 120:0 A Song of degrees.
Isaiah 26:16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
2 Chronicles 33:11 ¶Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
1:
Or, out of mine affliction.
e:
Psalms 65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Psalms 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
f:
Psalms 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
2:
Or, the grave.
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 words also.
not with a loud voice of the tongue, as it was not ordinarily feasible in so close a prison, so nor was it necessary he should, where none were to hear but his God, who heareth the strongest desires, and accounts them the strongest cries; so Jonah cried with his whole heart.
distress, or straits with which he was encompasseth and close besieged; nor was there ever closer siege laid to any one, his body and mind both shut up, the one by the monstrous dungeon of the fish’s belly, and the other by the terrors of the Almighty.
it was in many respects fit Jonah should petition God, for he was committed by his special warrant, and none either had power or authority to deliver him but God.
though Jonah say not how God did hear, in what particular, yet he knew both how and in what; the support of his person, the exercise of his reason, the workings of his heart toward God, and a hope or assurance that lie should be delivered, were part of the mercy God gave, and he prayed for.
the grave, so Sheol; so it was as dark to Jonah, and had been as destructive too, if mercy had not prevented. This is doubled, to intimate both the prisoner’s earnestness, and the greatness of the mercy given to one that was as shut up in the grave.
of his soul, whilst he was in that dismal dungeon; as above.