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    Jonah · 10 verses

    Jonah 2

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    Jonah's most exalted prayer ends with a fish being told to vomit him onto dry land.

    Prayer from the deepvv. 1–9

    From inside the fish, Jonah prays to the LORD his God, and the prayer travels through a whole geography of disaster: the belly of Sheol, the deep, the heart of the seas, the roots of the mountains, and the pit. The earth seems to bar him in forever, until the sentence turns sharply: the LORD raises his life. Jonah remembers, gives thanks, promises his sacrifice, and ends with the grand declaration that salvation is from the LORD.

    The fish obeysv. 10

    Then the LORD commands the fish, and the solemn prayer acquires an unusually practical conclusion. The fish vomits Jonah onto dry land: salvation, in this instance, arrives by marine instruction and stomach trouble.

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    1. Jonah 2:1From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

    2. Jonah 2:2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

    3. Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

    4. Jonah 2:4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

    5. Jonah 2:5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

    6. Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

    7. Jonah 2:7As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

    8. Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

    9. Jonah 2:9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

    10. Jonah 2:10And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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    • 2Psalms 18:4–6The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
    • 2Psalms 120:1A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
    • 9Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
    • 1Lamentations 3:53–56They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
    • 2Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
    • 9Psalms 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
    • 7Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
    • 4Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
    • 1Psalms 130:1–2A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
    • 1Psalms 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
    • 8Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
    • 3Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
    • 82 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
    • 8Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
    • 9Ecclesiastes 5:4–5When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
    • 1Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

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