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Verse Jonah 2:8. _THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES_] They that trust
in idols, follow _vain predictions_, permit themselves to be
influenced with _foolish fears_, so as to induce them to _leave the
pa...
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THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES - , i. e., (by the force of the
Hebrew form , that diligently watch, pay deference to, court, sue,
“vanities of vanities,” vain things, which prove themselves vain
at...
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CHAPTER 2
Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance
_ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _
2. The deliverance (John 2:10)
John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the
prayer is not one offered u...
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THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for
deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have
followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...
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_observe lying vanities_ Comp. Psalms 31:6, where the same Heb. word
is rendered "regard." By "lying vanities" we are to understand "all
inventions with which men deceive themselves" (Calvin), all fal...
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_JONAH REMEMBERED THE LORD -- JONAH 2:7-9:_ Jonah's declaration was
simple, "When my life was slipping away, I remembered you -- and in
your holy temple you heard my prayer. All who worship worthless...
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DISCOURSE: 1200
JONAH’S REFLECTIONS IN THE WHALE’S BELLY
John 2:7. _When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and
my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe
ly...
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FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY, &C.— "They who worship idols abandon the
mercy of God, render it useless, and reject it, even though offered to
them and always ready to save them." Houbigant reads the last c...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PROMISE OF JONAH
TEXT: Jonah 2:7-9
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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer
came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
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They that reg...
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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES - regard or reverence idols,
powerless to save ().
FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY - Yahweh, the very idea of wh...
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HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of
the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror
inspired by the sea in the minds of a...
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LYING VANITIES] cp. Deuteronomy 32:21 = idol gods. 'Vanity,' lit. 'a
breath,' means something evanescent and worthless.
THEIR OWN MERCY] This is used as a name for Jehovah. In Psalms 144:2
the same wo...
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THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD
JONAH
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 2
V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God.
Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...
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THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES. — See Note, Psalms 31:6.
FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY — _i.e._, forfeit their own share of the
covenant grace. In Psalms 37:28 it is said that Jehovah does not
forsake his...
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_[Jonah 2:9]_ מְשַׁמְּרִ֖ים הַבְלֵי
־שָׁ֑וְא חַסְדָּ֖ם יַעֲזֹֽבוּ׃
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THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM
John 2:1
AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah
prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of
the fish thre...
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A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS
John 1:17; John 2:1-10
The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared
the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover
of men. To pl...
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In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found
himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer
as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...
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They that observe lying (e) vanities forsake their own (f) mercy.
(e) Those that depend upon anything except on God alone.
(f) They refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they would
othe...
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_Me, at the last gasp, (Calmet) and oppressed with grief. (Menochius)_...
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The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was
cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof
that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a
peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely
Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
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Jonah the Penitent
I. INTRODUCTION
A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the
"great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning
- but before we do, I woul...
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Here Jonah says first, that men miserably go astray, when they turn
aside to vain superstitions, for they rob themselves of the chief
good: for he calls whatever help or aid that is necessary for
salv...
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We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful
witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means
through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among
the...
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THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY. They that
worship idols, who are nothing, mere vanity and lies, and deceive
those that serve them, these forsake the God of their lives, and o...
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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Ver. 8. _They that observe lying vanities_] That listen to sense and
reason in matters of God, and make provision for the flesh, to fulfil
th...
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_They that observe lying vanities_, &c. They that seek to, or trust
in, idols, (often called by the names of _vanity_ and lies,) _forsake
their own mercy_ Forsake him who alone is able to show mercy t...
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JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE.
The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a
thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From
this we see, as Lut...
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They that observe lying vanities, placing their trust in idols and in
false worship, FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY, deliberately abandon their one
hope of deliverance, namely, through the loving-kindness an...
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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
sen...
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Whoever they are that do, as the heathen mariners, seek to, depend
upon, and wait for help from idols, false gods, whoever choose them
for their assistance, and worship them, do depend upon most false...
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Jonah 2:8 regard H8104 (H8764) worthless H7723 idols H1892 Forsake
H5800 (H8799) Mercy H2617...
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Those who regard lying vanities,
Forsake their own mercy,
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving,
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvation is of YHWH.”
But he acknowledged that...
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JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1).
Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude
to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for
restitu...
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JONAH 1-4
Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ.
I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among
different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the
similitude of the pro...
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Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's
belly._
What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that
ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...
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CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonah.
CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet
if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...
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Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we
have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need
not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....
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_They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy._
THE VALUE OF SUPERSTITIONS
Here we learn the value to attach to all superstitions, to all those
opinions of men, when they attempt to set u...
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_And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._
THE RETURN TO GOD
The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature
of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...
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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:8 SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD. Jonah knows
that God is the sovereign source of salvation (see Jonah 4:1)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.
JONAH 2:8.] When prayer reaches to God he helps and saves. Salvation
is only from Him. Idolaters forfeit their mercy. OBSERVE] Lit. regard,
hold to, an intensive form: “pay deference t...
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EXPOSITION
JONAH 2:1
Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE.
JONAH 2:1
1. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving
for his rescue from death by drowning, in which h
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CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION
IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as
interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the
st...
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Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah
2:1),
Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three
days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...
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1 Samuel 12:21; 2 Kings 17:15; Habakkuk 2:18; Jeremiah 10:14;...
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JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION
Jonah 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the
Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...
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They — Whoever they are that depend upon idols. Mercy — The Lord,
who is to all that depend upon him, the fountain of living waters; who
is an eternal fountain of mercy, and flows freely to all that w...