Jonah 2:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 130:1-2 : 1 A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah. 2 Lord, hearken to my voice, Thine ears are attentive to the voice of my supplications.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He doth call Me, and I answer him, I `am' with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him.
  • 2 Chr 33:11-13 : 11 and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon. 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah -- He `is' God.
  • Isa 26:16 : 16 O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement `is' on them.
  • Lam 3:53-56 : 53 They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me. 54 Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. 55 I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit. 56 My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.
  • Hos 5:15-6:3 : 15 I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!' 1 `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up. 2 He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him. 3 And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
  • Acts 16:24-25 : 24 who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,
  • Jas 5:13 : 13 Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jonah 2:2-5
    4 verses
    89%

    2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

    3When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

    4And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

    5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

  • Jonah 2:9-10
    2 verses
    85%

    9And I -- with a voice of thanksgiving -- I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation `is' of Jehovah.

    10And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

  • Jonah 1:14-17
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    14And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

    15And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

    16and the men fear Jehovah -- a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and vow vows.

    17And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 4:1-9
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    76%

    1And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

    2and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

    3And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

    4And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'

    5And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

    6And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd `with' great joy.

    7And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

    8And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

    9And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

  • Jonah 1:1-8
    8 verses
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    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

    3And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down `to' Joppa, and findeth a ship going `to' Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

    4And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

    5and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.

    6And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What -- to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

    7And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil `is' on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

    8And they say unto him, `Declare to us, we pray thee, on what account this evil `is' on us? what `is' thine occupation, and whence comest thou? what `is' thy country, seeing thou art not of this people?'

  • Jonah 3:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

    2`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

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    1A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah.

  • Jonah 2:7
    71%

    7In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

  • Ps 120:1
    70%

    1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

  • Matt 12:40
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    40for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

  • Ps 18:6
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    6In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.

  • Lam 3:55
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    55I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.

  • 2 Sam 22:17
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    17He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.

  • Ps 18:16
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    16He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.

  • Ps 142:1
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    1An Instruction of David, a Prayer when he is in the cave. My voice `is' unto Jehovah, I cry, My voice `is' unto Jehovah, I entreat grace.

  • Ps 107:28
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    28And they cry to Jehovah in their adversity, And from their distresses He bringeth them out.

  • Ps 107:19
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    19And cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them,

  • Ps 107:6
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    6And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distress He delivereth them,

  • Ps 116:4
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    4And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

  • Jonah 3:4-5
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    4And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

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  • Jonah 1:11
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    11And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

  • 2 Sam 22:7
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    7In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I call, And He heareth from His temple my voice, And my cry `is' in His ears,

  • Ps 30:8
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    8Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, And unto Jehovah I make supplication.

  • Ps 30:2
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    2Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

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    13And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them.

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    1To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.