Jonah 2:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 2:7

Remembering the Lord. The circumstances in which Jonah was placed were such as give very peculiar value and interest to this declaration. And it appears that this act of recollection was the turning point in his experience; for hitherto his troubles had increased, whilst henceforth his prospects began to brighten. I. THE OCCASION OF THIS REMEMBRANCE . 1 . External adversity may have prompted him to a kind of remembrance which in his prosperity he had not cultivated. 2 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jonah 2:7

The prophet's prayer. The contrast which Jonah depicts between his own conduct and that of the heathen with whom he came in contact is very unfavourable to himself. He appears as a coward fleeing from his duty, and cruel enough to prefer that the Ninevites should be destroyed rather than that his accuracy should be impugned. But the idolatrous sailors prayed in the storm as best they could, and they were humane enough to try to save him, even after they had been told to cast him overboard... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jonah 2:7

When my sold fainted - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jonah 4:8. thirst, Amos 8:13. exhaustion, Isaiah 51:20. when a film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over. The soul of the pious never is so full of God, as when all things else fade from him. Jonah could not but have remembered God in the tempest; when the lots were east; when he adjudged himself to be east forth. But when it came to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 2:4-7

Jonah 2:4-7. Then I said, I am cast out, &c. “My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou wouldest cast me out of thy protection; yet, upon recollecting myself, I thought it my duty not to despair of thy mercy, but direct my prayer toward thy heavenly habitation.” Lowth. The waters compassed me even to the soul Or life; that is, to the extreme hazard of my life; and I thought of nothing more than losing my life among the waves. ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

2:1-10 A PSALM OF THANKSGIVINGJonah regained consciousness inside the great fish. This almost unbelievable experience caused him to believe that it was God’s way of saving his life. From inside the fish he then thanked God for saving him from drowning. He seems to have remembered phrases from various psalms and prayers used in temple worship, and he brought these together to form his own prayer of thanksgiving.In the opening words of the psalm Jonah recalled his prayer of desperation as he... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 2:7

fainted = swooned, or became unconscious to all else. Compare Psalms 77:3 .Lamentations 2:12 , From 'ataph, to cover or involve in darkness. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. (with 'eth) = Jehovah Him-self. App-4 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 2:7

"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple."See under Jonah 2:4 for the significance of this reference to the temple in Jerusalem as still standing. There is no dependability whatever in denials that this is a reference to that temple. Griffiths asserted that, "This is probably not the literal Jerusalem temple";[34] but that is the only temple that any of the Jews of that era knew. As Blaikie put it:"Jonah thinks of the temple... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 2:7

7. soul fainted . . . I remembered the Lord—beautifully exemplifying the triumph of spirit over flesh, of faith over sense (Psalms 73:26; Psalms 42:6). For a time troubles shut out hope; but faith revived when Jonah "remembered the Lord," what a gracious God He is, and how now He still preserves his life and consciousness in his dark prison-house. into thine holy temple—the temple at Jerusalem (Jonah 2:4). As there he looks in believing prayer towards it, so here he regards his prayer as... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 2:2-9

F. Jonah’s psalm of thanksgiving 2:2-9The following prayer is mainly thanksgiving for deliverance from drowning. It is not thanksgiving for deliverance from the fish or a prayer of confession, as we might expect. Jonah prayed it while he was in the fish. Evidently he concluded after some time in the fish’s stomach that he would not die from drowning. Drowning was a particularly distasteful form of death for an ancient Near Easterner such as Jonah who regarded the sea as a great enemy. Jonah’s... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 2:7

As Jonah was feeling that his life was ebbing away, his thoughts turned to Yahweh (cf. Psalms 107:5-6; Psalms 142:3; Psalms 142:5-7). Even though he felt far from God his prayer reached the Lord in His heavenly dwelling place."As in Jonah 1:6, prayer is presented as the key to the salvation of the one who would otherwise have perished." [Note: Allen, p. 218. Cf. Hebrews 4:16.] read more

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