Jonah 2

WEEK   25                                               Jonah 2

TUESDAY  Reflections

Some have said that you have to hit rock bottom before you look up. For Jonah, it was a different bottom; it was the bottom of the ocean in the belly of a fish. Jonah's prayer was answered. He was delivered, but what a deliverance being vomited up by a fish. Disobedience brings consequences. Jonah now relented and promised God he would go to Nineveh.

Reminder to self: obey God, don't run away.



Jon 2:1-10
(1)  Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
(2)  And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
(3)  For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
(4)  Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
(5)  The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
(6)  I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
(7)  When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
(8)  They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
(9)  But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
(10)  And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

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