A dark open sea at a low gray dawn, the surface heaving and empty, nothing on it but streaks of foam.

From the deep

Jonah 2

What do you say to God when you’ve hit bottom, and it’s your own fault?

10 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1RunningJeroboam II’s Israel, about 770 BC: west to Tarshish
2From the deepA prayer from inside the fishChapter 2
3Nineveh turnsAssyria’s great city repents
4God’s questionAn angry prophet and a withered plant

Jonah’s Prayer

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

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Jonah

Jonah

For 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.

Jonah

At this, I said,

‘I have been banished from Your sight;

yet I will look once more

toward Your holy temple.’

Reflect

Pray from where you are

Jonah prayed from the worst place he had ever been, and a place he had run into himself. Where would you pray from today, if you were honest? Write it down, and call to the LORD from there.

Jonah

Still dusk over a walled city on a ridge: on the height a long plain stone temple, before it a great square altar, its thin smoke rising straight up into a quiet violet sky.

As my life was fading away,

I remembered the LORD.

My prayer went up to You,

to Your holy temple.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Jonah

Those who cling to worthless idols

forsake His loving devotion.

Jonah

But I, with the voice of thanksgiving,

will sacrifice to You.

I will fulfill what I have vowed.

Salvation is from the LORD!”

Jonah 2:9

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

Question

Quick question

Jonah’s prayer looks back on a rescue. But he had not yet reached the shore.

Where was Jonah when he prayed this prayer?

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A verse to carry with you

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

Jonah 2:9

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