Jonah's Prayer
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Introduction
Introduction
Last week we saw poor choices the Jonah made, this week. we will see the Prayer that Jonah made to God and his reminicing on how powerful God is
1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish: 2 I called to the Lord in my distress, and he answered me. I cried out for help from deep inside Sheol; you heard my voice. 3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me. 4 But I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more toward your holy temple. 5 The water engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God! 7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple. 8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love, 9 but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord.” 10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
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I. Jonah Graditude
I. Jonah Graditude
1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:
1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:
Jonah was in the belly of the fish, think of the grace of God here, He could have just allowed Jonah to drown, but instead he chose to allow Jonah to live by creating a giant fish to swallow him.
He gave Jonah a secound chance!
Jonah begins with noting the place where he prayed, the belly is litterally the stomech he is in the stomec of the fish and this is where he begins to write the story of His diliverence
2 I called to the Lord in my distress,
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.
and he answered me.
at the start of this song of thanksgiving Jonah remembers an earlier prayer soon after being thrown into the watter.
I cried out for help from deep inside Sheol;
Jonah cryed for help and God answered.
this verse summerizes the reason for Jonah’s graditude but we will see in 3-7 the details of what took place
you heard my voice.
A. I called out
Litterally shouted or to summon
a. in distress
in need full of anxiety
B. He answerd me
the Lord lickly had a conversation with jonah as He had before
C. I cried out from deep inside sheol
I cryed out the litteral meaning is a call for help
Shelol means the underworld or wasteland. Jonah did not litterally die here, but he used this word to point the picture of despare as he was in the depths of the water in the belly of the fish
as a side note this fish would not have been able to swim verry deep or Jonah would have been killed by the presure.
D. You heard my voice
Jonah is remenicing at the magnificence of God in hearing his voice
II. Jonah’s cirumstances
II. Jonah’s cirumstances
3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
3 You threw me into the depths,
3 You threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
and the current overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
A. You threw me into the depths
threw litterlly means to eject or remove
although the sailors were the ones who threw him into the sea. He freely aknoledges that it was God that the ultemate responsibility rests upon.
B. into the heart of the seas
He again reminises on how he was done for he was thrown into the middle of the sea and it overcame him.
C. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
He focuses this statement on the fact that the breakers and billows were God’s they were created by Him and he owned them
The absolute sovrigty of God is reconized here. Jonah clearly showes his decent beneeth the waves.
4 But I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.
4 But I said,
“I have been banished from your sight,
yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.
Jonah’s initial thought is that God had now completly rejected Him
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-Jonah’s initial thought is that God had now completly rejected Him
”I have been banished from your sight”
He believes that having attempted to flee from God’s presence he is now headed for the grave where he will be permenetly isolated from God.
The word yet could also be translated how, therfore Jonah is asking at this point
“Now that you have banished me how can I look at you again”
5 The water engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
5 The water engulfed me up to the neck;
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
He returns to his experence with the water
The picture here is that he is overtaken by the sea and there was nothing that he could do about it, he was going to drown.
Jonah is a prisioner of the sea as much as he tries he can not free himself from his wattery prison and his death seams inevedible.
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6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!
6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains,
the earth’s gates shut behind me forever!
Then you raised my life from the Pit,
Lord my God!
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOUNTIN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SEA BOTTOM HE sank to the bottom and was prepared to die.
He makes the statement the earhs gates shut behind me forever. he was shur he was going to die. but God spared his live and thus he interjects theis point of praise
“Lord my God”
7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
7 As my life was fading away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
to your holy temple.
Jonah not only remembers the Lord but prays to Him holly temple is used here just as it was used earlier in the chapeter this holly emple was lickly refering to God himself not some physical place.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,
8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,
The idea here is those that charish false Gods will abandon them, but those who trully follow the one true God will never leave Him.
III. Jonah’s Praise
III. Jonah’s Praise
9 but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord.”
9 but as for me,
I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving.
I will fulfill what I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to the Lord.”
Jonah stated what the godless do, they: abandon love
But as for Him he will:
1. sacrifice to the Lord with thanksgiving
2. fulfilled what He had vowed
He finishes with a final glory to God by the statement “Salvation belongs to the Lord”
10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
10 Then the Lord commanded the fish,
and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
After all this God comanded the fish vomit Jonah onto the land.
Application
are you in your own fish belly today running from God. Not doing what he has called you to do