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Jonah here doth intimate his adherence to God, his assurance that he should find God to be a. fountain of mercy to him, that God would hear his prayer.
I will sacrifice; in most solemn manner recognize the mercy I receive; I shall have just ground to do it, and I will certainly be just to the mercy of my God and do it. Who wait on gods that cannot deliver shall never have cause to sacrifice to them; if they do the thing, they do sacrilegiously rob God.
Unto thee; excluding all others, who shall have as little share in the praise as they had in the thing for which praise is offered.
With the voice of thanksgiving; including the heart also; for such is the sacrifice with which God is best pleased, Psa_50:14,23 116:17 Hos_14:2 Heb_13:15.
I will pay: vows are, when made, debts we owe to God, and must, as just debts, be paid.
That I have vowed: it is not said what it was he had vowed, probably it was a more obedient heart and deportment, likely he resolveth to go to Nineveh and preach what God commandeth him; he will perform his promise to the Lord in all things he did engage to do.
Salvation; power to save, and actual deliverance from all dangers, in all distresses: when none of the gods the marine is invoked, neither any one apart nor yet all together, could quiet the tempest, and save from the danger of the sea, Jonah’s God could do both, he could by his own single power deliver Jonah out of the belly of hell.
Is of the Lord; he only can save, none else can as he can, Psa_3:8 68:20.