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

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the 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 clean cut off.

Toward

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

General references

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.