Jonah 2:4

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Summary

Jonah 2:4

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

I said

Ezekiel 37:11

Toward

General references

Lamentations 3:55

Bible References

I said

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

Toward

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.

General references

I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.