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Jonah 2:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. "
Jonah 2:9
Verse in Context
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7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
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Jonah 2:1
"Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,"
Jonah 2:2
"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."
Jonah 2:3
"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."
Jonah 2:4
"Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple."
Jonah 2:5
"The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head."
Jonah 2:6
"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."
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