Jonah’s prayer (1)
Ronald Hanko provides an exegetical meditation on Jonah's prayer from the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1-10), emphasizing the theological significance of Jonah's first acknowledgment of God as "his God" and exploring how his disobedience and sense of divine abandonment led to repentance. The article reflects on the doctrine of election and God's sovereign grace in preserving and restoring one of His covenant children despite their rebellion.
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight: yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth...
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