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Notes on this text (3)

1 And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. 2 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish. 3 And he said: “I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice. 4 And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over me. 5 And I said: I am expelled from the sight of your eyes. Yet, truly, I will see your holy temple again. 6 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head. 7 I descended to the base of the mountains. The bars of the earth have enclosed me forever. And you will raise up my life from corruption, Lord, my God. 8 When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple. 9 Those who in vain observe vanities, abandon their own mercy. 10 But I, with a voice of praise, will sacrifice to you. I will repay whatever I have vowed to the Lord, because of my salvation.” 11 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto 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. 1 Lamentations 3:53–56; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 130:1–2; Job 13:15; Isaiah 26:16
  2. 2 Psalm 18:4–6; Psalm 120:1; Psalm 34:6; Psalm 86:13; Psalm 88:1–7
  3. 3 Psalm 42:7; Lamentations 3:54; Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 69:14–15; Psalm 88:5–8
  4. 4 Psalm 31:22; Psalm 5:7; 2 Chronicles 6:38; Isaiah 38:17; 1 Kings 8:38–39
  5. 5 Psalm 69:1–2; Lamentations 3:54; Psalm 40:2
  6. 6 Psalm 30:3; Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 38:17; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 143:7
  7. 7 Psalm 18:6; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Psalm 143:5; Psalm 11:4; 1 Samuel 30:6
  8. 8 Psalm 31:6; Jeremiah 2:13; 2 Kings 17:15; 1 Samuel 12:21; Jeremiah 10:8
  9. 9 Psalm 3:8; Psalm 50:14; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 50:23
  10. 10 Matthew 8:26–27; Psalm 33:9; Matthew 8:8–9; Isaiah 50:2; Genesis 1:3

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Quotes verse 2:2 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter XVII)

    … 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 …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 2:2 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXX)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 2:2 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    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)