Jonah 2:7

“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…”

“soul fainted . . . I remembered the Lord--beautifully exemplifying the triumph of spirit over flesh, of faith over sense (; ). For a time troubles shut out hope; but faith revived when Jonah "remembered the Lord," what a gracious God He is, and how now He still preserves his life and consciousness in his dark prison-house. into thine holy temple--the temple at Jerusalem (). As there he looks in believing prayer towards it, so here he regards his prayer as already heard.”

“When my sold fainted - , literally “was covered, within me,” was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness from heat, Jonah 4:8. thirst, Amos 8:13. exhaustion, Isaiah 51:20. when a film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over. The soul of the pious never is so full of God, as when all things else fade from him. Jonah could not but have remembered God in the tempest; when the lots were east; when he adjudged himself to be east forth. But when it came to the utmost, then he says, “I remembered the Lord,” as though, in the intense thought of God then, all his former thought of God had been forgetfulness. So it is in every strong act of faith, of love, of…”

“Thine holy temple - Heaven, the temple of his glory, whence God gives the command for his delivery. Jonah 2:8”

“2:7 I remembered the Lord: In this context, Jonah’s statement means “I turned my thoughts to the Lord in prayer.” • earnest prayer . . . holy Temple: The Temple was God’s special dwelling place in Israel’s worship, even though God is present everywhere at all times (Ps 139:7-10; Jer 23:23-24).”

“my soul: Psa 22:14, Psa 27:13, Psa 119:81-83; Heb 12:3 I remembered: Sa1 30:6; Psa 20:7, Psa 42:5, Psa 42:11, Psa 43:5, Psa 77:10, Psa 77:11, Psa 143:5; Isa 50:10; Lam 3:21-26; Co2 1:9, Co2 1:10 my prayer: Ch2 30:27; Psa 18:6 holy: Jon 2:4; Psa 11:4, Psa 65:4; Mic 1:2; Hab 2:20 Jonah 2:8”