SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:7
Cuando mi alma desfallecía en mí, me acordé del Señor; Y mi oración entró hasta ti en tu santo Templo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:7
Verse 7. When my soul fainted] When I had given up all hope of life. My prayer came in unto thee] Here prayer is personified, and is represented as a messenger going from the distressed, and entering into the temple of God, and standing before him. This is a very fine and delicate image. This clause is one of those which I suppose the prophet to have added when he penned this prayer.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. When my soul fainted within me , etc.] Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his sins; and under a sense of the wrath and displeasure of God, and being forsaken by him: I remembered the Lord ; his covenant and promises, his former mercies and lovingkindness, the gracious experiences he had had of these in times past; he remembered he was a God gracious and merciful, and ready to forgive, healed the backslidings of his people, and still loved them freely, and tenderly received and embraced them, when they returned to him: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple ; into heaven itself, the habitation of God’s holiness, the temple where he dwells, and is worshipped by holy angels and glorified saints; the prayer the prophet put up in the fish’s belly, encouraged to it by remembering the mercy and goodness of God, ascended from thence, and reached the ears of the Lord of hosts in the highest heavens, and met with a kind reception, and had a gracious answer; (see Psalm 3:4 22:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God' good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men ma shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with God. To whom he prayed; to the Lord his God. This encourages eve backsliders to return. What his prayer was. This seems to relate his experience and reflections, then and afterwards, rather than to be the form or substance of his prayer. Jonah reflects on the earnestness of his prayer, and God's readiness to hear and answer. If we would ge good by our troubles, we must notice the hand of God in them. He ha wickedly fled from the presence of the Lord, who might justly take his Holy Spirit from him, never to visit him more. Those only ar miserable, whom God will no longer own and favour. But though he wa perplexed, yet not in despair. Jonah reflects on the favour of God to him, when he sought to God, and trusted in him in his distress. He warns others, and tells them to keep close to God. Those who forsak their own duty, forsake their own mercy; those who run away from the work of their place and day, run away from the comfort of it. As far a a believer copies those who observe lying vanities, he forsakes his ow mercy, and lives below his privileges. But Jonah's experienc encourages others, in all ages, to trust in God, as the God of salvation.
Original Hebrew
בהתעטף 5848 עלי 5921 נפשׁי 5315 את 853 יהוה 3069 זכרתי 2142 ותבוא 935 אליך 413 תפלתי 8605 אל 413 היכל 1964 קדשׁך׃ 6944
