Jonah 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’

Cross References

1 Kings 8:42

—for they shall hear of your great name, your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm—when foreigners come and pray toward this house,

1 Kings 8:48

if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and pray to you toward their land that you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 6:38

if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity, to which they were taken captive, and pray toward their land that you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,

Psalm 31:22

I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.

Psalm 42:8

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 5:7

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house; I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you.

Psalm 88:6

You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah

Isaiah 38:17

Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness, but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.”

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of my sight, just as I cast out all your kinsfolk, all the offspring of Ephraim.

Lamentations 3:54

water closed over my head; I said, “I am lost.”

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

Daniel 6:10

Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously.

Jonah 2:7

As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.