Jonah 2:2

New Living Translation

He said, “I cried out to the Lord in my great trouble, and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and Lord, you heard me!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12

But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

Psalm 116:3

Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 120:1

I took my troubles to the Lord; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.

Psalm 22:24

For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy. He has not turned his back on them, but has listened to their cries for help.

Psalm 34:6

In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened; he saved me from all my troubles.

Psalm 4:1

Answer me when I call to you, O God who declares me innocent. Free me from my troubles. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

Psalm 61:2

From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety,

Psalm 65:2

for you answer our prayers. All of us must come to you.

Psalm 86:13

for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.

Isaiah 14:9

“In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand up to see you.

Lamentations 3:55

But I called on your name, Lord, from deep within the pit.

Ezekiel 26:20

I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

Let the tree of no other nation proudly exult in its own prosperity, though it be higher than the clouds and it be watered from the depths. For all are doomed to die, to go down to the depths of the earth. They will land in the pit along with everyone else on earth.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Luke 11:10

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

Luke 22:44

He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.

Acts 2:27

For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.

Hebrews 5:7

While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.

1 Samuel 1:16

Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”

1 Samuel 30:6

David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the Lord his God.