Jonah 2:4 “At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will loo…”

Jonah 2:4

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

World English Bible

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

American Standard Version

And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then I saide, I am cast away out of thy sight: yet will I looke againe towarde thine holy Temple.

Darby Translation

And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.

Young's Literal Translation

And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Bible in Basic English

And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

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Cross references

“I said”

Psalm 31:22 Isaiah 38:17 Psalm 77:1–7 Isaiah 38:10–14 Isaiah 49:14 Ezekiel 37:11

Psalm 31:22 · BSB

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Isaiah 38:17 · BSB

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Psalm 77:1–7 · BSB

I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.

Isaiah 38:10–14 · BSB

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Isaiah 49:14 · BSB

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

Ezekiel 37:11 · BSB

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

“out”

Jeremiah 7:15 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 15:1

Jeremiah 7:15 · BSB

And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

1 Kings 9:7 · BSB

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

Jeremiah 15:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

“toward”

Psalm 5:7 2 Chronicles 6:38 Daniel 6:10 1 Kings 8:42 1 Kings 8:48 1 Kings 8:38

Psalm 5:7 · BSB

But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

2 Chronicles 6:38 · BSB

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and th…

Daniel 6:10 · BSB

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to h…

1 Kings 8:42 · BSB

for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:48 · BSB

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen,…

1 Kings 8:38 · BSB

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

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