Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”                                                                                                                          Jonah 3:4  Jonah’s message for Nineveh was brief and rang with certain clarity. Unless the city turned toward the Lord, they…

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”                                                                                                                     Jonah 3:1-2  Jonah has run from the presence of the Lord, been tossed overboard into a raging…

Salvation is from the Lord. Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.                                                                                                                  Jonah 2:9b-10  “Salvation is from the Lord” is Jonah’s final declaration just before God commanded the great fish to spit him out onto dry land. From this point on,…

While I was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple. Those who regard vain idols forsake their faithfulness, but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay.                                                                                                                       Jonah 2:7-9  It may not be necessary for us…

Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, weeds were wrapped around my head. I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.                                                                                                                        Jonah 2:5-6  Jonah continues with the…

For You had cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current engulfed me. All Your breakers and billows passed over me. So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’                                                                                                                    Jonah 2:3-4  Jonah moves from…

I called out of my distress to the Lord, and He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.                                                                                                                Jonah 2:2  So Jonah has been delivered from the depths of the sea and certain death. But now he will spend the next…

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17  When I was a child the Jonah story was all about that great fish or “whale” as we often mistakenly said. As I have grown older (and I hope become more mature),…

Then they (the men on the boat) called on the Lord and said, “We earnestly pray, O Lord, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life and do not put innocent blood on us; for You, O Lord, have done as You have pleased.” So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped…

The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.                                                                                                                         Jonah 1:4  He (Jonah) said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry…