Jonah 2:9
Verse 9 of 10. The 2nd of 4 chapters in Jonah, in The Minor Prophets.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
10And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 2:9 in the World English Bible
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”Read Jonah 2:9 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:9
Or these words may be taken as Jonah's vow when he was in distress, and he speaks (v. 9) of paying what he vowed; his vow is that if God deliver him he will praise him in the gates of the daughter of Zion, Ps. ix. 13, 14.
Read Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1–9: Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. (b. c. 840.)
Pray Jonah 2:9 with someone reading it aloud.
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