Jon 2:2 | JFB | STEP | 2. His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in , ; in , ; in , ; in , ; in , ; ; in , ; in , , , and 3:8. Jonah, an inspired man, thus attests both the antiquity and inspiration of the Psalms. It marks the spirit of faith, that Jonah identifies himself with the saints of old, appropriating their experiences as recorded in the Word of God ( ). Affliction opens up the mine of Scripture, before seen only on the surface. out of the belly of hell-- Sheol, the unseen world, which the belly of the fish resembled.

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2. His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in Jon 2:2, Psa 120:1; in Jon 2:3, Psa 42:7; in Jon 2:4, Psa 31:22; in Jon 2:5, Psa 69:1; in Jon 2:7, Psa 142:3; 18:6; in Jon 2:8, Psa 31:6; in Jon 2:9, Psa 116:17, 18, and 3:8. Jonah, an inspired man, thus attests both the antiquity and inspiration of the Psalms. It marks the spirit of faith, that Jonah identifies himself with the saints of old, appropriating their experiences as recorded in the Word of God (Psa 119:50). Affliction opens up the mine of Scripture, before seen only on the surface.

out of the belly of hell--Sheol, the unseen world, which the belly of the fish resembled.