Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 2:7

7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembred the LORD, and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple .

So soon as, and so often as.

Heart perplexed with variety of fears, sorrows, temptations and difficulties, when ever I did forecast, and devise what way I might likely escape out of this forlorn condition, I was dispirited, heart sunk within me, Psal. 22.14. and 42.4. and I had fainted if I had not remembred the mighty, faithful, wise and gracious God who could save me, and on whose mercy I relyed, who had promised the best of two deliverances, the eternal, whatever he did with me as to the temporal deliverance.

With Faith, and Prayer, for 'tis not a bare recalling of God to his mind, but a recalling his mercy, and promise to his mind

made in the Fish Belly, in his prison more dismal then ever was that of Manasse[illegible: 1 letter].

Did enter the Ears of the Lord, he heard and readily answered.

Typically the Temple at Ierusalem to which Ionah looked, but principally Heaven the Temple of his glory, whence God gives the command for his delivery orders the Goaler to set him safe on shore.