Jonah 2:1-3:4

Jonah 1 Jonah 4

Jonah 2:1-3:4 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Jonah’s Prayer

2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:

²I called to the Lord in my distress,
and he answered me.
I cried out for help from deep inside^[a] Sheol;
you heard my voice.
³When you threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
the current^[b] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
⁴And I said, “I have been banished
from your sight,
yet I will look^[c] once more
toward your holy temple.”
⁵The water engulfed me up to the neck;^[d]
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
⁶I 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!
⁷As my life was fading away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
to your holy temple.
⁸Those who cherish worthless idols
abandon their faithful love,
⁹but as for me, I will sacrifice to you
with a voice of thanksgiving.
I will fulfill what I have vowed.
Salvation^[e] belongs to the Lord.

¹⁰Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Jonah’s Preaching

3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: ²“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.” ³Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely great city,^[f] a three-day walk. ⁴Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”

Footnotes:

2:2 Lit from the stomach of
2:3 Lit river
2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?
2:5 Or me, threatening my life
2:9 Or Deliverance
3:3 Or was a great city to God

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