Jonah: The Praying Prophet

Study of Jonah Part 2 of 4

Join us this week as we discuss Jonah 1:17 - Jonah 2:10 and take a deep dive into Jonah, what was behind his disobedience, why he ran away, and how it applies to us today!

8/24/25

Scripture:

Jonah 1:17 - 2:10 LSB

17 And Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the stomach of the fish, 

2 and he said,

“I called out of my distress to Yahweh,

And He answered me.

I cried for help from the belly of Sheol;

You heard my voice.

3 “For You had cast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the current surrounded me.

All Your breakers and waves passed over me.

4 “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight.

Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

5 “Water encompassed me to my very soul.

The great deep surrounded me,

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

6 “I went down to the base of the mountains.

The earth with its bars closed behind me forever,

But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.

7 “While my soul was fainting within me,

I remembered Yahweh,

And my prayer came to You,

To Your holy temple.

8 “Those who regard worthless idols

Forsake their lovingkindness,

9 But as for me, I will sacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving.

That which I have vowed I will pay.

Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.