Jonah 2:4
New International Version
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

New Living Translation
Then I said, ‘O LORD, you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’

English Standard Version
Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.’

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

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

New King James Version
Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

New American Standard Bible
“So I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

NASB 1995
“So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

NASB 1977
“So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Thy sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Thy holy temple.’

Legacy Standard Bible
So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

Amplified Bible
“Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

Christian Standard Bible
And I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But I said: I have been banished from Your sight, yet I will look once more 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But I said: ‘I am removed far from before your eyes, even now I continue to see your holy temple

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?

Contemporary English Version
I thought I was swept away from your sight, never again to see your holy temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Then I thought, 'I have been banished from your sight. Will I ever see your holy temple again?'

Good News Translation
I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

International Standard Version
So I told myself, 'I have been driven away from you. How will I again gaze on your holy Temple?'

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I said: 'I am cast out From before Thine eyes'; Yet I will look again Toward Thy holy temple.

Literal Standard Version
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes | (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)

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

New American Bible
Then I said, “I am banished from your sight! How will I again look upon your holy temple?”

NET Bible
I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

New Revised Standard Version
Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’

New Heart English Bible
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.

World English Bible
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your 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!)

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jonah's Prayer
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. 4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’ 5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.…

Cross References
1 Kings 8:38
then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make--each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple--

1 Kings 8:48
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, and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:38
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 the house I have built for Your Name,

Psalm 5:7
But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

Psalm 31:22
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.

Jeremiah 7:15
And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

Daniel 6:10
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 his God, just as he had done before.


Treasury of Scripture

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

I said.

Psalm 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Psalm 77:1-7
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me…

Isaiah 38:10-14,17
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years…

out.

1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

Jeremiah 7:15
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

Jeremiah 15:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

toward.

1 Kings 8:38,39,42,48
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: …

2 Chronicles 6:38
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

Psalm 5:7
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

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Jonah 2
1. The prayer of Jonah.
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(4) I am cast out of thy sight.--"Jonah had wilfully withdrawn from standing in God's presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of it. David had said in his haste, "I am cut off" (Psalm 31:22), Jonah substitutes the stronger word, "I am cast forth," driven forth, expelled like the mire and dirt which the waves drive along, or like the waves themselves in their restless motion, or the heathen (the word is the same) whom God had driven out before Israel, or as Adam from Paradise" (Pusey).

Yet I will look again.--The Hebrew is very impressive, and reads like one of those exile hopes so common in the Psalms: "Yet I have one thing left, to turn towards Thy holy Temple and pray." (For the attitude see Note on Psalm 28:2.)

Verse 4. - Jonah confesses that he at first fully expected death; but faith and hope soon triumphed over despondency. I am cast out of thy sight. This was his thought when what is mentioned in ver. 3 happened unto him. The words are a reminiscence of Psalm 31:22, altered somewhat to suit Jonah's circumstances. The psalmist says, "I said in my haste." Jonah says simply, "I said," without any limitation; and for "I am cut off," Jonah uses, "I am cast out." Septuagint, ἀπῶσμαι - a strong term, implying banishment with violence. Out of thy sight; literally, frown before thine eyes; i.e. from thy protecting care (comp. 1 Samuel 26:24; 1 Kings 8:29). He who had fled from the presence of the Lord in Canaan fears that he has forfeited the favour of God. Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. I will turn in prayer to that holy place where thou dost manifest thy presence. The Jews were wont to turn towards Jerusalem when they prayed (comp. 1 Kings 8:30, etc.; Daniel 6:10; Psalm 18:6; Psalm 28:2). Some think that Jonah expresses a hope of worshipping again in the temple; but the turn of expression in the text hardly warrants this. Others refer the term to the heavenly temple, as they do in ver. 7; Psalm 11:4; Psalm 18:6.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
At this, I
וַאֲנִ֣י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

said,
אָמַ֔רְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘I have been banished
נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי (niḡ·raš·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1644: To drive out from a, possession, to expatriate, divorce

from
מִנֶּ֣גֶד (min·ne·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-m
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

Your sight;
עֵינֶ֑יךָ (‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

yet
אַ֚ךְ (’aḵ)
Adverb
Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

I will look
לְהַבִּ֔יט (lə·hab·bîṭ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

once more
אוֹסִ֣יף (’ō·w·sîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

toward
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Your holy
קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃ (qāḏ·še·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

temple.’
הֵיכַ֖ל (hê·ḵal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1964: A large public building, palace, temple


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