Jonah Reading Plan | Week 4 – Day 2
Jonah Reading Plan | Week 4 – Day 2
Jonah 2:4 – 6 ESV
Jonah’s Prayer
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.
b. I have been cast out of Your sight: Jonah’s greatest pain was not the calamity, but his separation from God — his feeling that he was cast out of Your sight. Still, he was determined — even in the belly of a fish — to turn his heart towards God and His temple. Simply, Jonah remembered the LORD.
c. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God: Again, Jonah could praise God for the answer to prayer before the answer came, because God gave him assurance.