Jonah 2

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¹Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. ✦ ²And he said: “I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. ✦ ³For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. ✦ ⁴Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ ✦ ⁵The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head. ✦ ⁶I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. ✦ ⁷“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple. ✦ ⁸“Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy. ✦ ⁹But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.” ✦ ¹⁰So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Gen 1 ·5 Lam 3 ·4 Ps 50 ·3 1 Kgs 8 ·3 Ps 65 ·3 Isa 38 ·3 Ps 69 ·3 Ps 42 ·3

Christ at the center

Three days in the belly of the fish is the sign Jesus gave of his own death and resurrection (Matt 12:40); and God's mercy on pagan Nineveh foreshadows the gospel going to the nations.

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