Jonah 2:7

New Living Translation

As my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord . And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As my life was fading away,I remembered the Lord,and my prayer came to you,to your holy temple.

Hebrew Names Version
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

King James Version (1611)
When my soule fainted within mee, I remembred the Lord, and my prayer came in vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.

King James Version
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord : and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

English Standard Version
When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord , and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.

New American Standard Bible
"While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple.

New Century Version
"When my life had almost gone, I remembered the Lord . I prayed to you, and you heard my prayers in your Holy Temple.

Amplified Bible
"When my soul was fainting within me, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde: and my prayer came vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple.

Legacy Standard Bible
While my soul was fainting within me,I remembered Yahweh,And my prayer came to You,To Your holy temple.

Berean Standard Bible
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

Contemporary English Version
When my life was slipping away, I remembered you— and in your holy temple you heard my prayer.

Complete Jewish Bible
I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains, to a land whose bars would close me in forever; but you brought me up alive from the pit, Adonai , my God!

Darby Translation
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.

Easy-to-Read Version
"My soul gave up all hope, but then I remembered the Lord . I prayed to you, and you heard my prayers in your holy Temple.

George Lamsa Translation
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in to thee, into thy holy temple.

Good News Translation
When I felt my life slipping away, then, O Lord , I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.

Lexham English Bible
When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

Literal Translation
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.

American Standard Version
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

Bible in Basic English
When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde, and my prayer came in vnto thee into thy holy temple.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

English Revised Version
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

World English Bible
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne my soule was angwisched in me, Y bithouyte on the Lord, that my preier come to thee, to thin hooli temple.

Update Bible Version
When my soul fainted inside me, I remembered Yahweh; And my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Webster's Bible Translation
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

New English Translation
When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the Lord , and my prayer came to your holy temple.

New King James Version
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.

New Life Bible
While I was losing all my strength, I remembered the Lord. And my prayer came to You, into Your holy house.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When my soul, darkened itself over me, Yahweh, I remembered, - and my prayer, came in unto thee, unto thy holy temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-8) When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.

Revised Standard Version
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

Young's Literal Translation
In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When my soule faynted within me, I thought vpon the LORDE: and my prayer came in vnto the, euen in to thy holy temple.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish. ² He said, "I cried out to the Lord in my great trouble, and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and Lord , you heard me! ³ You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves. ⁴ Then I said, ‘O Lord , you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.' ⁵ "I sank beneath the waves, and the waters closed over me. Seaweed wrapped itself around my head. ⁶ I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death! ⁷ As my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord . And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple. ⁸ Those who worship false gods turn their backs on all God's mercies. ⁹ But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise, and I will fulfill all my vows. For my salvation comes from the Lord alone."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my soul: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 27:13, Psalms 119:81-83, Hebrews 12:3

I remembered: 1 Samuel 30:6, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 43:5, Psalms 77:10, Psalms 77:11, Psalms 143:5, Isaiah 50:10, Lamentations 3:21-26, 2 Corinthians 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:10

my prayer: 2 Chronicles 30:27, Psalms 18:6

holy: Jonah 2:4, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 65:4, Micah 1:2, Habakkuk 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 45:26 - And Jacob's Judges 16:28 - remember me 2 Samuel 22:7 - out Psalms 6:9 - hath heard Psalms 31:22 - nevertheless Psalms 42:6 - therefore Luke 18:1 - and not James 5:13 - any among

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15
The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.

Genesis 2:20
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.

Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

Genesis 7:22
Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.

Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. "O God," they pleaded, "you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?"

Numbers 27:16
"O Lord , you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for the community.

Job 4:19
how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.

Job 27:3
As long as I live, while I have breath from God,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When my soul fainted within me,.... Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his sins; and under a sense of the wrath and displeasure of God, and being forsaken by him:

I remembered the Lord; his covenant and promises, his former mercies and lovingkindness, the gracious experiences he had had of these in times past; he remembered he was a God gracious and merciful, and ready to forgive, healed the backslidings of his people, and still loved them freely, and tenderly received and embraced them, when they returned to him:

and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple; into heaven itself, the habitation of God's holiness, the temple where he dwells, and is worshipped by holy angels and glorified saints; the prayer the prophet put up in the fish's belly, encouraged to it by remembering the mercy and goodness of God, ascended from thence, and reached the ears of the Lord of hosts in the highest heavens, and met with a kind reception, and had a gracious answer; see Psalms 3:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 the utmost, then he says, “I remembered the Lord,” as though, in the intense thought of God then, all his former thought of God had been forgetfulness. So it is in every strong act of faith, of love, of prayer; its former state seems unworthy of the name of faith, love, prayer. It believes, loves, prays, as though all before had been forgetfulness.

And my prayer came in unto Thee - No sooner had he so prayed, than God heard. Jonah had thought himself cast out of His sight; but his prayer entered in there. “His holy temple” is doubtless His actual temple, toward which he prayed. God, Who is wholly everywhere but the whole of Him nowhere, was as much in the temple as in heaven; and He had manifested Himself to Israel in their degree in the temple, as to the blessed saints and angels in heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 2:7. When my soul fainted — When I had given up all hope of life.

My prayer came in unto thee — Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into the temple of God, and standing before him. This is a very fine and delicate image. This clause is one of those which I suppose the prophet to have added when he penned this prayer.