Jonah 2:2

Free Bible Version

He began, “In my agony I cried out to the Lord and he answered me; from the depths of Sheol I pleaded for help and you answered me.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his misery, he asked the Lord God for help, repenting for his arrogance before the God of his forefathers.

Psalm 116:3

I was caught in the snares of death; I was trapped by terrors of the grave. All I experienced was suffering and grief.

Psalm 120:1

I called out to the Lord for help in all my troubles, and he answered me.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not abandon me in the grave, nor will you allow your Holy One to experience decay.

Psalm 22:24

For he has not ridiculed or scorned the suffering of the poor; he has not turned away from them, he has listened to their cries for help.

Psalm 34:6

This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard me, and saved me from all my troubles.

Psalm 4:1

When I call, please answer me, God who vindicates me. When I was hemmed in by troubles, you gave me a way out. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Psalm 61:2

From this distant place, far from home, I cry out to you as my courage fails. Take me to a rock high above me where I will be safe,

Psalm 65:2

You hear our prayers; everyone comes to you.

Psalm 86:13

For your trustworthy love for me is so great; you have saved me from death.

Isaiah 14:9

Those in the grave beneath are keen to meet you when you arrive. It wakes the spirits of the dead to welcome you, those of all the rulers of the earth. All the kings of the nations stand up from their thrones.

Lamentations 3:55

I called out for you, Lord, from deep inside the pit.

Ezekiel 26:20

I will bring you down with those who are headed to the grave to join people from long ago. I will make you live under the earth like the ruins of the past together with those who have gone down into the grave, so that no one will live in you and you won't have any place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

This was in order that no other trees growing by the water would grow up so high and have their tops reach the clouds. This was so that no other trees, however much water they had, would be as tall as them, For they all will die and go down into earth, just like human beings who go down into the grave.

Matthew 12:40

“In the same way Jonah was in the belly of a huge fish for three days and three nights, the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks, receives; and everyone who seeks, finds; and to everyone who knocks the door will be opened.

Luke 22:44

In great distress Jesus prayed even harder, and his sweat fell like drops of blood onto the ground.

Acts 2:27

For you will not abandon me in the grave, nor will you allow your Holy One to experience decay.

Hebrews 5:7

Jesus, while he was here in human form, prayed and appealed with loud cries and tears to God, the one who was able to save him from death. Jesus was heard because of his respect for God.

1 Samuel 1:16

Please don't think I'm a bad woman! I have been praying because of all my troubles and grief.”

1 Samuel 30:6

David was in a great deal of trouble, because the men were so upset over losing their children that they began to talk of stoning him. But trusting in the Lord his God,