KJV King James Version
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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Jonah 2:4
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
WEB World English Bible
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
ASV American Standard Version
And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
YLT 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!)
Surrounding context — Jonah 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I 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.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַאֲנִ֣יH589 · a.niIאָמַ֔רְתִּיH559 · a.marto sayנִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּיH1644 · ga.rashto drive out: drive outמִנֶּ֣גֶדH5048 · ne.gedbeforeעֵינֶ֑יךָH5869 · a.yineyeאַ֚ךְH389 · akhsurelyאוֹסִ֣יףH3254 · ya.saphto add: againלְהַבִּ֔יטH5027 · na.vatto lookאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הֵיכַ֖לH1964 · he.khaltempleקָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃H6944 · qo.deshholiness
Cross-references
Psalm 31:22For 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 5:7But 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.2 Chronicles 6:38If 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:Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.1 Kings 8:38-39What 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:Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.1 Kings 9:7Then 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 15:1Then 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.Psalm 77:1-7To 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.Ezekiel 37:11Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.Isaiah 38:10-14I 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.1 Kings 8:48And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:1 Kings 8:42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
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