Jonah 2:1
Then Jonah aprayed unto the LORD bhis God cout of the fish's belly,
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
a:
Psalms 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
b:
Hosea 14:1 O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Psalms 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
c:
Psalms 130:0 A Song of degrees.
Psalms 69:0 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
Psalms 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 142:2-142:5 2. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. 3. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. 4. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5. I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
The prayer of Jonah, Jon 1:1-9. He is delivered out of the belly of the fish, Jon 1:10.
Heb. And, at that time when he lay by the heels a close prisoner in a prison, whence none before or since ever came out alive,
sent his petition in all humble and submissive manner unto God: Jonah, wonderfully preserved alive, and in full exercise of his judgment and memory, now betakes himself to prayer, and in this exerciseth his graces; his soul follows hard after God, when he was shut up in this dungeon.
that was angry, and now was punishing of Jonah; the Lord, who had committed him to this prison; the almighty God, who can do for Jonah all that he can need or desire.
though Jonah in his froward fit flees from his God, yet now, by the rod taught better, he flees to God, nay, as his God, and remembers his particular interest in God. If Jonah prays by faith grounded on God’s almightiness, now he prays with assurance and hope of faith, looking to God as his God; if the power of the Lord and his mercy keep Jonah alive in the fish’s belly, the same power and mercy can deliver him out of this danger, and the prophet believes he is kept there for an enlargement as miraculous as his confinement was.
where he was a prisoner under many miracles, and all concur to awaken him to prayer and faith; he calls it
or the grave, Jon 2:2. He employed his time well there.