Then the Levitical kohanim arose and blessed the people, and Adonai heard their voice, for their prayer reached heaven, His holy dwelling place.
Jonah 2:7 - Tree of Life Version To the bottoms of the mountains I went down. The earth with her bars was around me, forever! Yet You brought my life up from the Pit, Adonai my God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When my soul fainted upon me [crushing me], I earnestly and seriously remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple. American Standard Version (1901) When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. Common English Bible When my endurance was weakening, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple. Catholic Public Domain Version I descended to the base of the mountains. The bars of the earth have enclosed me forever. And you will raise up my life from corruption, Lord, my God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. |
Then the Levitical kohanim arose and blessed the people, and Adonai heard their voice, for their prayer reached heaven, His holy dwelling place.
Adonai is in His holy Temple. Adonai’s throne is in heaven. His eyes are watching. His eyelids observe the children of men.
I remember the days of old. I meditate on all You have done. I ponder the work of Your hands.
Now I know that Adonai saves His anointed. He answers him from His holy heaven with saving strength of His right hand.
They open wide their mouths against me, like a tearing, roaring lion.
Surely I trust that I will see the goodness of Adonai in the land of the living.
As with a crushing in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, by saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng, walking with them to the House of God, with a voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a festival.
Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.
Behold, it was for my own shalom that I had great bitterness. You have loved my soul out of the Pit of destruction! For You have flung all my sins behind Your back.
Who among you fears Adonai? Who hears the voice of His servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of Adonai and lean on his God.
For you hurled me from the deep into the heart of the seas, and currents swirled around me. All your waves and your breakers swept over me.”
Hear, O peoples—all of you! Attention, O land and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will be witness against you— The Lord from His holy Temple.
But Adonai is in His holy Temple. Let all the land be silent before Him.
Consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.
So David was in a serious bind, for the troops were calling for his stoning, for all the troops were bitter of soul, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Adonai his God.