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Jonah 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He introduces the prayer with the tact that he cried to God in distress and was heard. By reason of mine affliction; better, out of my affliction. This may be a reminiscence of or ; but from such coincidences nothing can be established concerning the date of the book.

Like circumstances call forth like expressions; and the writers may have composed them quite independently of one another. Hell (Sheol). The unseen world (). He was as though dead when thus engulfed (comp.

). Cried I (, ). Thou heardest my voice (, ).

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