Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8
Chapter 2
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“In my distress, I cried out to the Lord,and he answered me;from the depths of the grave, you heard my voice when I called.
4
You threw me into the deep,to the very heart of the sea,and the currents swirled around me;all your wavesand breakers swept over me.
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Then I thought:I have been cast out from your presence,but I keep on looking to your holy temple.
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When my soul was faint within me, I remembered the Lord, and before you, I lifted my prayer up to your holy temple.
Commentaries
In the Belly of the Great Fish.
God has authority over chaos, symbolized by the great fish, a sea monster that, by divine design, keeps the prophet alive inside its belly. Now Jonah turns to God with a psalm of thanksgiving for rescuing him from the depths of the sea (cf. Ps 116).