Jonah 2:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I thought I was swept away from your sight, never again to see your holy temple.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshipped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.

Psalm 31:22

I was terrified and thought, “They've chased me far away from you!” But you answered my prayer when I shouted for help.

Psalm 42:8

Every day, you are kind, and at night you give me a song as my prayer to you, the living LORD God.

Psalm 5:7

Because of your great mercy, I come to your house, LORD, and I am filled with wonder as I bow down to worship at your holy temple.

Psalm 88:6

You have put me in the deepest and darkest grave;

Psalm 88:7

your anger rolls over me like ocean waves.

Isaiah 38:17

It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins.

Isaiah 49:14

The people of Zion said, “The LORD has turned away and forgotten us.”

Jeremiah 15:1

The LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.

Jeremiah 7:15

And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.

Lamentations 3:54

Water covered my head— I thought I was gone.

Ezekiel 37:11

The LORD said: Ezekiel, the people of Israel are like dead bones. They complain that they are dried up and that they have no hope for the future.

Daniel 6:10

Daniel heard about the law, but when he returned home, he went upstairs and prayed in front of the window that faced Jerusalem. In the same way that he had always done, he knelt down in prayer three times a day, giving thanks to God.

Jonah 2:7

When my life was slipping away, I remembered you— and in your holy temple you heard my prayer.