JONAH'S PRAYER (PRESENT TENSE PARAPHRASED - Jonah 2:1-9)
In my distress I call out to you LORD, and I know you will answer me. From the depths of the grave I call for your help and I know you hear my cry. I am in the deep, in the very heart of the seas, and the currents are swirling around me; all your waves and breakers are sweeping over me.I know I have been banished from your sight; yet I focus again toward your holy temple. The engulfing waters threaten me, the deep surrounds me; seaweed wraps around my head. I sink down to the root of the mountains; the earth has barred me in forever. But you have brought my life up from the pit, O LORD, my God. My life is ebbing away, but I remember you LORD, and my prayer rises to you, to your holy temple. Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. But I will sacrifice to you with a song of thanksgiving. And what I have promised in my heart and mind to you LORD I will make good, for I know that Salvation comes from you LORD. v. 10 - "And the LORD command...