When my soul fainted — literally, it “was covered, within me,” and was dizzied, overwhelmed. The word is used of actual faintness f…

Fainted. —Literally, covered itself. Compare Jonah 4:8. (Psalms 142:3; Psalms 143:4, where the sam…

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD:

It is a blessed memory that serves us faithfully in a fainting fit.

Most…

Here Jonah encompasses in one verse what he had previously said—that he had been distressed with the most severe troubles, but that he had not yet …

When my soul fainted within me Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his s…

Observe when Jonah prayed. He prayed when he was in trouble, under the signs of God's displeasure against him for sin. When we are in affliction, w…