August 28, 2017

17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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.

Jonah 1:17 - 2:10