Jonah · Bible in Basic English
Jonah 2 Bible in Basic English
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1 Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
1 MAS Jehová había prevenido un gran pez que tragase á Jonás: y estuvo Jonás en el vientre del pez tres días y tres noches.
1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
2 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
2 Y oró Jonás desde el vientre del pez á Jehová su Dios,
2 He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
3 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
3 Y dijo: Clamé de mi tribulación á Jehová, y él me oyó; del vientre del sepulcro clamé, y mi voz oiste.
3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
4 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
4 Echásteme en el profundo, en medio de los mares, y rodeóme la corriente; todas tus ondas y tus olas pasaron sobre mí.
4 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
5 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
5 Y yo dije: Echado soy de delante de tus ojos: mas aun veré tu santo templo.
5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
6 Las aguas me rodearon hasta el alma, rodeóme el abismo; la ova se enredó á mi cabeza.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.
7 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
7 Descendí á las raíces de los montes; la tierra [echó] sus cerraduras sobre mí para siempre: mas tú sacaste mi vida de la sepultura, oh Jehová Dios mío.
7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
8 Cuando mi alma desfallecía en mí, acordéme de Jehová; y mi oración entró hasta ti en tu santo templo.
8 Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.
9 Los que guardan las vanidades ilusorias, su misericordia abandonan.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
10 And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.
10 Yo empero con voz de alabanza te sacrificaré; pagaré lo que prometí. La salvación [pertenece] á Jehová. Y mandó Jehová al pez, y vomitó á Jonás en tierra.
10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Lamentations 3:53–56; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 130:1–2; Job 13:15; Isaiah 26:16
- 2 Psalm 18:4–6; Psalm 120:1; Psalm 34:6; Psalm 86:13; Psalm 88:1–7
- 3 Psalm 42:7; Lamentations 3:54; Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 69:14–15; Psalm 88:5–8
- 4 Psalm 31:22; Psalm 5:7; 2 Chronicles 6:38; Isaiah 38:17; 1 Kings 8:38–39
- 5 Psalm 69:1–2; Lamentations 3:54; Psalm 40:2
- 6 Psalm 30:3; Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 38:17; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 143:7
- 7 Psalm 18:6; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Psalm 143:5; Psalm 11:4; 1 Samuel 30:6
- 8 Psalm 31:6; Jeremiah 2:13; 2 Kings 17:15; 1 Samuel 12:21; Jeremiah 10:8
- 9 Psalm 3:8; Psalm 50:14; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 50:23
- 10 Matthew 8:26–27; Psalm 33:9; Matthew 8:8–9; Isaiah 50:2; Genesis 1:3
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… unhoped-for salvation from God, might rise from the dead, and glorify God, and repeat that word which was uttered in prophecy by Jonah: "I cried by reason of mine affliction to the Lord my God, and He heard me out of the belly of hell;" and that he might always continue glorifying God, and giving thanks without ceasing, for that …
Jonas cried from the deep; from the whale's belly. He was not only beneath the waves, but also in the entrails of the beast; nevertheless, those waves and that body prevented not his prayer from reaching God, and the beast's belly could not contain the voice of his prayer.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Of this our Saviour the Prophet Jonas formed the type, when he prayed out of the belly of the whale, and said, I cried in my affliction, and so on; out of the belly of hell, and yet he was in the whale; but though in the whale, he says that he is in Hades; for he was a …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)