Jonah 2:4

New Century Version

I said, ‘I was driven out of your presence, but I hope to see your Holy Temple again.’

Cross References

1 Kings 8:48

They will truly turn back to you in the land of their enemies. They will pray to you, facing this land you gave their ancestors, this city you have chosen, and the Temple I have built for you.

1 Kings 9:7

If you do, I will force Israel to leave the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of Israel and speak evil about them.

2 Chronicles 6:38

They will truly turn back to you in the land where they are captives. They will pray, facing this land you gave their ancestors, this city you have chosen, and the Temple I have built for you.

Psalm 31:22

In my distress, I said, “God cannot see me!” But you heard my prayer when I cried out to you for help.

Psalm 42:8

The Lord shows his true love every day. At night I have a song, and I pray to my living God.

Psalm 5:7

Because of your great love, I can come into your Temple. Because I fear and respect you, I can worship in your holy Temple.

Psalm 88:6

You have brought me close to death; I am almost in the dark place of the dead.

Psalm 88:7

You have been very angry with me; all your waves crush me.Selah

Isaiah 38:17

It was for my own good that I had such troubles. Because you love me very much, you did not let me die but threw my sins far away.

Isaiah 49:14

But Jerusalem said, “The Lord has left me; the Lord has forgotten me.”

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!

Jeremiah 7:15

I will push you away from me just as I pushed away your relatives, the people of Israel!’

Lamentations 3:54

Water came up over my head, and I said, “I am going to die.”

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Human, these bones are like all the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has gone. We are destroyed.’

Daniel 6:10

Even though Daniel knew that the new law had been written, he went to pray in an upstairs room in his house, which had windows that opened toward Jerusalem. Three times each day Daniel would kneel down to pray and thank God, just as he always had done.

Jonah 2:7

“When my life had almost gone, I remembered the Lord. I prayed to you, and you heard my prayers in your Holy Temple.