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Jonah 2:1–7 – Prayer from the deep

What happens: From the fish, Jonah prays. He describes sinking under waves, seaweed around his head, and the bars of the deep closing in. He remembers the Lord, and his prayer reaches the temple.

What it means: Desperation can become the doorway back to God. The Lord hears the broken and shows mercy, revealing His patience and faithfulness.

Jonah 2:8–9 – Salvation belongs to the Lord

What happens: Jonah contrasts those who cling to worthless idols with those who give thanks. He vows to keep his promises and declares, “Salvation belongs to the Lord.”

What it means: Only God saves; idols cannot. Gratitude, repentance, and kept vows fit a heart that knows the Lord’s grace.

Jonah 2:10 – Released to obey

What happens: The Lord speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah onto dry land.

What it means: When God restores, He also redirects. Mercy is meant to lead to obedience and mission.

Application

  • Cry out to God from your lowest point; He hears.
  • Renounce every idol that competes with trust and gratitude.
  • Keep your vows and walk in the obedience mercy makes possible.

Bible

1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

2And 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.

3For 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.

4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6I 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.

7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

10And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

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