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Jonah 2 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
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  • 1917
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Notes on this text (1)

Jonah is not in PT1904.

JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
1 (2-2) Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.
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2 (2-3) And he said: I called out of mine affliction unto the LORD, and He answered me; out of the belly of the nether-world cried I, and Thou heardest my voice.
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3 (2-4) For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me.
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4 (2-5) And I said: 'I am cast out from before Thine eyes'; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.
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5 (2-6) The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head.
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6 (2-7) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
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7 (2-8) When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thy holy temple.
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8 (2-9) They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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9 (2-10) But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of thanksgiving; that which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is of the LORD.
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10 (2-11) And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
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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

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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)