Hard Lessons Jonah 2:1-10 ESV Pt#2

How to Make a Comeback (Part #2)

Speaker: Pastor James Walling

Text: Jonah 2:1-10

1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 

2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.
3 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
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.
7 When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.