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The LORD provided a great fish.............

Jonah 1:17-2:10  But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. ¹From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. ²He said:

     “In my distress I called to the LORD,

       and he answered me.

     From the depths of the grave I called for help,

       and you listened to my cry.

³        You hurled me into the deep,

       into the very heart of the seas,

       and the currents swirled about me;

     all your waves and breakers

       swept over me.

⁴        I said, ‘I have been banished

       from your sight;

     yet I will look again

       toward your holy temple.’

⁵        The engulfing waters threatened me,

       the deep surrounded me;

       seaweed was wrapped around my head.

⁶        To the roots of the mountains I sank down;

       the earth beneath barred me in forever.

     But you brought my life up from the pit,

       O LORD my God.

⁷        “When my life was ebbing away,

       I remembered you, LORD,

     and my prayer rose to you,

       to your holy temple.

⁸        “Those who cling to worthless idols

       forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

⁹        But I, with a song of thanksgiving,

       will sacrifice to you.

     What I have vowed I will make good.

       Salvation comes from the LORD.”

¹⁰And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.