Why do you sometimes run from God? How can you run to Him today?
Dear God, thank You for the rescue You alone provide.
1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.
2 He said In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the depths, 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, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.
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 turn away from God's love for them.
9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, 'Salvation comes from the LORD.
10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. |