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

I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.

I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me."

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

Toward

whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,

if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

General references

"I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;