Jonah 2:7 - Exposition

His prayer was heard. When my soul fainted within me; literally, was covered —referring, says Pusey, to that physical exhaustion when a film comes over the eyes, and the brain is mantled over. The clause is from Psalms 142:3 or Psalms 143:4 . I remembered the Lord. That was his salvation ( Psalms 119:55 ). He turned in thought to thine holy temple ( Psalms 143:4 ), the sanctuary where God's presence was most assured, like the psalmist in the wilderness ( Psalms 63:2 ). or like the exiles by the waters of Babylon when they remembered Zion ( Psalms 137:1-9 ).