1 Και προσηυχήθη Ιωνάς προς Κύριον τον Θεόν αυτού εκ της κοιλίας του κήτους, 2 Και είπεν, Εβόησα εν τη θλίψει μου προς τον Κύριον, και εισήκουσέ μου· εκ κοιλίας άδου εβόησα, και ήκουσας της φωνής μου. 3 Διότι με έρριψας εις τα βάθη, εις την καρδίαν της θαλάσσης, και ρεύματα με περιεκύκλωσαν· πάσαι αι τρικυμίαι σου και τα κύματά σου διήλθον επάνωθέν μου. 4 Και εγώ είπα, Απερρίφθην απ' έμπροσθεν των οφθαλμών σου· όμως θέλω επιβλέψει πάλιν εις τον ναόν τον άγιόν σου. 5 Τα ύδατα με περιεκύκλωσαν έως της ψυχής, η άβυσσος με περιέκλεισε, τα φύκια περιετυλίχθησαν περί την κεφαλήν μου. 6 Κατέβην εις τα έσχατα των ορέων· οι μοχλοί της γης είναι επάνωθέν μου διαπαντός· αλλ' ανέβη η ζωή μου από της φθοράς, Κύριε Θεέ μου· 7 Ενώ ήτο εκλείπουσα εν εμοί η ψυχή μου, ενεθυμήθην τον Κύριον· και η προσευχή μου εισήλθε προς σε, εις τον ναόν τον άγιόν σου. 8 Οι φυλάττοντες ματαιότητας ψεύδους εγκαταλείπουσι το έλεος αυτών. 9 Αλλ' εγώ θέλω θυσιάσει προς σε μετά φωνής αινέσεως· θέλω αποδώσει όσα ηυχήθην· η σωτηρία είναι παρά του Κυρίου. 10 Και προσέταξεν ο Κύριος το κήτος και εξήμεσε τον Ιωνάν επί την ξηράν.
Jonah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Jonah 2 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
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
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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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)