When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Jonah 2:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He said, *I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of She'ol I cried. You heard my voice. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, And he heard me; Out of the belly of hell cried I, And thou heardest my voice. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And said, I cried out of my distress to the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and You heard my voice. [Ps. 120:1; 130:1; 142:1; Lam. 3:55-58.] American Standard Version (1901) And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice. Common English Bible “I called out to the LORD in my distress, and he answered me. From the belly of the underworld I cried out for help; you have heard my voice. Catholic Public Domain Version And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish. |
When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of She'ol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
For you will not leave my soul in She'ol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest She'ol.
She'ol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
because you will not leave my soul in She'ol, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.