Jonah 2:4

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul,.... Either when he was first cast into the sea, which almost suffocated him, and just ready to take away his life, could not breathe for them, as is…

I am cast out of Thy sight - , literally, “from before Thine eyes.” Jonah had willfully withdrawn from standing in God’s presence. Now God had taken him at his word, and, as it seemed, cast him out of…

I am cast out of thy sight - See Psa 31:22.

Thy holy temple - Then Jerusalem was not yet destroyed, for the temple was standing.

Then I said, &c. The first clause of this verse may, perhaps, be a reminiscence of the first clause of Psa 31:22 (Heb. 23), though there the words "in my haste" are added, and a different verb ("cut…