Jonah’s Prayer.
LORD sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah prayed to the LORD, Out of my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me; From the womb of Sheol* I cried for help, and you heard my voice.
You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, and the flood enveloped me; All your breakers and your billows passed over me. Then I said, “I am banished from your sight! How will I again look upon your holy temple?”
The waters surged around me up to my neck; the deep enveloped me; seaweed wrapped around my head. I went down to the roots of the mountains; to the land whose bars closed behind me forever, But you brought my life up from the pit,
O LORD, my God.f When I became faint, I remembered the LORD; My prayer came to you in your holy temple…. I, with thankful voice, will sacrifice to you; What I have vowed I will pay: deliverance is from the LORD.i
Then the LORD commanded the fish to vomit Jonah upon dry land.
REFLECTION
PRAY THAT I NEVER SEPARATE MYSELF FROM GOD BY CHOOSING MY WILL BVER HIS!