John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah." — Jonah 2:9 (ASV)
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving ,
&c.] Not only offer up a legal sacrifice in a ceremonial way, when he came to Jerusalem; but along with it the spiritual sacrifice of praise, which he knew was more acceptable unto God; and thus Christ, his antitype, upon his deliverance from his enemies, (Psalms 22:22Psalms 22:25) (Psalms 69:30Psalms 69:31) ; I will pay [that] I vowed ;
when he was in distress; as that he would sacrifice after the above manner, or behave in a better manner for the future than he had done; and particularly would go to Nineveh, if the Lord thought fit to send him again: salvation [is] of the Lord ;
this was the ground of the faith and hope of Jonah when at the worst, and the matter of his present praise find thanksgiving.