for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray towards this temple –
Jonah 2:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more towards your holy temple.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I said, I have been cast out of Your presence and Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. [Ps. 31:22.] American Standard Version (1901) And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. Common English Bible So I said, ‘I have been driven away from your sight. Will I ever again look on your holy temple? Catholic Public Domain Version And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou hast cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me. |
for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray towards this temple –
and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city which you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
and when they return to you with all their mind and all their heart in the land of their captivity where they were taken captive, and when they pray in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and towards the temple I have built for your name,
Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such intense bitterness; but your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before me, my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.
I will banish you from my presence, just as I banished all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.”
Then he said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.”
When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened towards Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.