Jonah 2:2

New English Translation

and said, “I called out to the Lord from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 120:1

In my distress I cried out to the Lord and he answered me.

Psalm 16:10

You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

Psalm 22:24

For he did not despise or detest the suffering of the oppressed; he did not ignore him; when he cried out to him, he responded.

Psalm 34:6

This oppressed man cried out and the Lord heard; he saved him from all his troubles.

Psalm 4:1

When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!

Psalm 61:2

From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!

Psalm 65:2

You hear prayers; all people approach you.

Psalm 86:13

For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Lamentations 3:55

I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.

Ezekiel 26:20

then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the pit.

Matthew 12:40

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so 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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 22:44

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Acts 2:27

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

Hebrews 5:7

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

1 Samuel 1:16

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1 Samuel 30:6

David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.