Jonah 2:9

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jonah 2:1-10

CHAPTER 2[Jonah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving and Praise for his Deliverance from the Bowels of Fish.—C.E.]1 Now [And] the Lord [Jehovah] had prepared1 [appointed] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.2 And Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish and said,3 I cried to Jehovah out of my distress:And He answered me:Out of the womb of Sheol2 I cried:Thou heardest my voice.4 Thou castedst me into the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

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 plunge beneath the wave is to fall into His arms. More than once the body of a man has been found in the belly of a shark in the Mediterranean. Even those who hold that this story is an elaborate parable must admit that it is probably founded on such a fact. Our Lord’s endorsement of this book... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jonah 2:1-10

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 Psalms. It is exactly the kind of cry which a man familiar with the sacred penitential writings of his people would utter in such circumstances. Perhaps the most remarkable note about the prayer is its note of triumph. While it is distinctly asserted that he prayed out of the fish's belly, and... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 2:1-9

Jonah, in the School of Affliction Jonah 2:1-9 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 heart of the earth, we think of the "underworld"; the abode of the wicked, and the former "paradise" of the saved of Old Testament fame. A brief study of these things will furnish us a profitable theme for the introduction of today's study. 1. The abode of the righteous dead in the Old Testament.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:1-10

Jonah’s Prayer Of Repentance And Gratitude (Jonah 2:1-10 ). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restitution to His favour, ‘I am cast out from your sight, yet will I look again towards your holy Temple’, and again, ‘Those who regard lying vanities (Jonah in his flight), forsake their own mercy, but I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay what I have vowed.’ It is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:8-9

Those who regard lying vanities, Forsake their own mercy, But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of YHWH.” But he acknowledged that he had been clinging on to deceitful vanities as though he was an idolater (for the phrase compare Psalms 31:6 where it probably refers to idolatry). He had actually believed that he could resign his position as the servant of YHWH and simply walk out on Him, as though YHWH was just an idol. And it... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:2-9

Jonah 2:2-1 Samuel : . 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 to Jonah’ s condition; it is that of a man who has been in imminent danger of drowning but has been rescued. Yahweh answered him when he called in distress from the belly of Sheol. Yahweh had flung him into the depth, he was submerged by His billows. He thought himself... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 2:9

Jonah here doth intimate his adherence to God, his assurance that he should find God to be a. fountain of mercy to him, that God would hear his prayer. I will sacrifice; in most solemn manner recognize the mercy I receive; I shall have just ground to do it, and I will certainly be just to the mercy of my God and do it. Who wait on gods that cannot deliver shall never have cause to sacrifice to them; if they do the thing, they do sacrilegiously rob God. Unto thee; excluding all others, who shall... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 2:8-10

CRITICAL NOTES. Jonah 2:8.] When prayer reaches to God he helps and saves. Salvation is only from Him. Idolaters forfeit their mercy. Observe] Lit. regard, hold to, an intensive form: “pay deference to court, sue vanity of vanities, vain things which prove ruin at last” [Pusey]. Mercy] Lit. their goodness, i.e. God, their Benefactor, the Author of all mercies (Psalms 144:2). Jonah 2:9. I will] The vow of a pious man as opposed to the life of apostates. As the mariners ended their sacrifice with... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

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 prophet's burial and resurrection. When the Jews asked for a sign He refused it, (i) because it was presumptuous to ask it; (ii) because they were blind to actual signs already given and constantly existing before their eyes; (iii) because the very demand was a proof of deep ungodliness, and the... read more

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