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September 8 – Read Jonah 2 Jonah had fallen deeply into sin by rejecting the command God gave him to preach at Nineveh, but in this chapter we see his spiritual strength. Even as he was in the fish’s belly, Jonah praised God with the words of the Psalms. He begins verse 2 similarly to how David begins Psalm 120, where he says, “In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.” David used the phrase “all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me” in Psalm 42:7, which Jonah quoted at the...