[1500] _To Thy holy temple_, vv. 5 and 8: cf. Psalm v. 8, etc. _The waters have come round me to my very soul_, ver. 6: cf. Psalm lxix. 2. _And Thou broughtest up my life_, ver. 7: cf. Psalm xxx. 4. _When my soul fainted upon me_, ver. 8: cf. Psalm cxlii. 4, etc. _With the voice of thanksgiving_, ver. 10: cf. Psalm xlii. 5. The reff. are to the Heb. text.
[1501] Cf. ver. 3 with Psalm xviii. 7; ver. 4 with Psalm xlii. 8; ver. 5 with Psalm xxxi. 23; ver. 9 with Psalm xxxi. 7, and ver. 10 with Psalm l. 14.
[1502] Budde, as above, p. 42.
[1503] De Wette, Knobel, Kuenen.
[1504] Budde.
[1505] _E.g._ Hitzig.
[1506] Luther says of Jonah’s prayer, that “he did not speak with these exact words in the belly of the fish, nor placed them so orderly, but he shows how he took courage, and what sort of thoughts his heart had, when he stood in such a battle with death.” We recognise in this Psalm “the recollection of the confidence with which Jonah hoped towards God, that since he had been rescued in so wonderful a way from death in the waves, He would also bring him out of the night of his grave into the light of day.”
[1507] ii. 5, B has λαόν for ναόν; i. 9, for עברי it reads עבדי, and takes the י to be abbreviation for יהוה; ii. 7, for בעדי it reads בעלי and translates κάτοχοι; iv. 11, for ישׁ־בהּ it reads ישׁבו, and translates κατοικοῦσι.
[1508] i. 4, גדולה, perhaps rightly omitted before following גדול; i. 8, B omits the clause באשר to לנו, probably rightly, for it is needless, though supplied by Codd. A, Q; iii. 9, one verb, μετανοήσει, for ישוב ונחם, probably correctly, see below.
[1509] i. 2, ἡ κραυγὴ τῆς κακίας for רעתם; ii. 3, τὸν θεόν μου after יהוה; ii. 10, in obedience to another reading; iii. 2, τὸ ἔμπροσθεν after קראיה; iii. 8, לאמר.
[1510] iii. 4, 8.