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Jonah 2
- Purpose
- To recount a story of the far-reaching scope of God’s sovereignty and salvation
- Author
- Unknown
- Date
- Around 755 BC
- Setting
- A time when Assyria’s influence in Israel had temporarily decreased, likely during the reign of Jeroboam II
Jonah has 1,202 words: about 5 minutes to read, or 7 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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The full introduction to Jonah opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
From the Tyndale Open Study Notes, Tyndale House Publishers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Footnotes
Jonah’s Prayer
1From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God, 2saying:“In my distress I called to the LORD,and He answered me.From the belly of Sheol I called for help,and You heard my voice. 3For 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. 4At this, I said,‘I have been banished from Your sight;yet I will look once moretoward Your holy temple.’
5The waters engulfed meto take my life;the watery depths closed around me;the seaweed wrapped around my head. 6To the roots of the mountains I descended;the earth beneath me barred me in forever!But You raised my life from the pit,O LORD my God!
7As my life was fading away,I remembered the LORD.My prayer went up to You,to Your holy temple. 8Those who cling to worthless idolsforsake His loving devotion.footnote a 9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving,will sacrifice to You.I will fulfill what I have vowed.Salvation is from the LORD!”
10And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Footnotes
- a 2:8 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
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