1 THEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine
aaffliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the
belly of
bhella cried I,
and thou heardest my voice.
3 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.
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2a out of the belly of hell
As scary as being cast into the sea to drowned may have been, it was noting
when compared to the 'hell' of being in the belly of a 'great fish', there
still alive and having the digestive juices eating at you. This was this
horror which finally worked upon Jonah to figure out that testifying before
Nineveh would not be so bad after all and it did turn his heart to plead
unto Lord for deliverance and his intent to compliance to the commands of
God.
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