Module 25: The Need for a Teacher - God's Activities
Joel - The Day of the Lord; and Jonah - Condemnation of Exclusiveness; and Obadiah - The Curse of Cowardice
Jonah Chapter 2
3. The Experiences of the Deep - 2:1-2:9
1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish's belly.
2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.'
5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, LORD my God.
7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD."
4. The Deliverance - 2:10
10 Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
Footnotes
- Verse 2 (Sheol)
- Sheol is the place of the dead.