Jonah: Part 3, Chapter 2

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    Shepherds of Souls
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    Scripture:
    Jonah 2:1-10; Psalm 18:4-6; Psalm 51:15-17
    Handout:
    Jonah: Part Three

  • Jonah 2

    Jonah’s Prayer

    2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

      “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
        and he answered me;
      out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
        and you heard my voice.
    3   For you cast me into the deep,
        into the heart of the seas,
        and the flood surrounded me;
      all your waves and your billows
        passed over me.
    4   Then I said, ‘I am driven away
        from your sight;
      yet I shall again look
        upon your holy temple.’
    5   The waters closed in over me to take my life;
        the deep surrounded me;
      weeds were wrapped about my head
    6     at the roots of the mountains.
      I went down to the land
        whose bars closed upon me forever;
      yet you brought up my life from the pit,
        O LORD my God.
    7   When my life was fainting away,
        I remembered the LORD,
      and my prayer came to you,
        into your holy temple.
    8   Those who pay regard to vain idols
        forsake their hope of steadfast love.
    9   But I with the voice of thanksgiving
        will sacrifice to you;
      what I have vowed I will pay.
        Salvation belongs to the LORD!”

    10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

    Psalm 18:4–6

    4   The cords of death encompassed me;
        the torrents of destruction assailed me;
    5   the cords of Sheol entangled me;
        the snares of death confronted me.
    6   In my distress I called upon the LORD;
        to my God I cried for help.
      From his temple he heard my voice,
        and my cry to him reached his ears.

    Psalm 51:15–17

    15   O Lord, open my lips,
        and my mouth will declare your praise.
    16   For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
        you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
    17   The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
        a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.