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Introduction 1 2 3 4 Obadiah Micah
Jonah 2
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The prayer of Jonah. (1-9) He is delivered from the fish.
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Verses 1-9 Observe
when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure
against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by
miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to us, notwithstanding our
offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath.
Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer.
Men may shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with
God. To whom he prayed; to the Lord his God. This encourages even backsliders to
return. What his prayer was. This seems to relate his experience and
reflections, then and afterwards, rather than to be the form or substance of his
prayer. Jonah reflects on the earnestness of his prayer, and God's readiness to
hear and answer. If we would get good by our troubles, we must notice the hand
of God in them. He had wickedly fled from the presence of the Lord, who might
justly take his Holy Spirit from him, never to visit him more. Those only are
miserable, whom God will no longer own and favour. But though he was perplexed,
yet not in despair. Jonah reflects on the favour of God to him, when he sought
to God, and trusted in him in his distress. He warns others, and tells them to
keep close to God. Those who forsake their own duty, forsake their own mercy;
those who run away from the work of their place and day, run away from the
comfort of it. As far as a believer copies those who observe lying vanities, he
forsakes his own mercy, and lives below his privileges. But Jonah's experience
encourages others, in all ages, to trust in God, as the God of salvation.
Verse 10 Jonah's
deliverance may be considered as an instance of God's power over all the
creatures. As an instance of God's mercy to a poor penitent, who in distress
prays to him: and as a type and figure of Christ's resurrection. Amidst all our
varying experiences, and the changing scenes of life; we should look by faith,
fixedly, upon our once suffering and dying, but now risen and ascended Redeemer.
Let us confess our sins, consider Christ's resurrection as an earnest of our
own, and thankfully receive every temporal and spiritual deliverance, as the
pledge of our eternal redemption.
Chapter 2:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 Obadiah Micah
Genesis
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1 Chronicles
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