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Jonah and the whale12/29/2022 He spoke to the whale, and it spit Jonah out onto the dry land. The Lord heard this prayer of thanksgiving. Then he prayed, “But I with the voice of thanksgiving will worship you what I have vowed I will pay. Those who worship anything other than God forsake their loyalty.” But I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to him. “The waters closed in over me, and my life is floating away. “I called the Lord out of my distress, and he answered me,” he said. Instead of getting angry with God, he thought about all that he could be thankful for. He realized his mistake, and he was grateful to be alive. Jonah remained alive in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. God sent a whale up out of the sea to swallow him. Suddenly the storm stopped and the waters were calm again. They picked him up and threw him into the water. They prayed to the Lord for forgiveness and did as Jonah said. The men tried to row to safety, but there was no use. “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he said. Jonah looked out over the side of the boat. “What shall we do? How can we stop this storm now?” they said to the prophet. Jonah told them who he was and that he was fleeing from the Lord. The sailors suspected that the storm was Jonah’s fault and confronted him about it. Jonah went inside the ship and tried to go to sleep. He found a ship going in the opposite direction of Nineveh and paid the sailors to take him with them.Īs the ship sailed away, however, God sent a great wind and a mighty storm upon the sea. Jonah heard the voice of the Lord say to him, “Go at once to Nineveh and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.” Jonah tried to avoid this calling from God, but God would not let him.Īs you read this story, pay attention to the way that Jonah prays to God from the belly of the whale. God sent him to preach a message of repentance to the people of Nineveh.
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