Jonah 2:4

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jonah 2:4 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  2. 1 Kings 8:42for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
  3. 1 Kings 8:48and 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, and the house I have built for Your Name,
  4. 1 Kings 9:7then 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.
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:38and 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 the house I have built for Your Name,
  6. Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
  7. Psalms 31:22In 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.
  8. Psalms 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
  9. Psalms 77:1I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
  10. Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
  11. Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
  12. Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
  13. Isaiah 38:17Surely 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.
  14. Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  15. Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
  16. Jeremiah 15:1Then 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.
  17. Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
  18. Ezekiel 37:11Then 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.’
  19. Daniel 6:10Now 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 his God, just as he had done before.

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