Jonah 2:1

JONAH CHAPTER 2 The prayer of Jonah, Jonah 1:1. He is delivered out of the belly of the fish, Jonah 1:10. Then, 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, Jonah prayed; 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. Unto the Lord, 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. His God; 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. Out of the fish's belly; where he was a prisoner under many miracles, and all concur to awaken him to prayer and faith; he calls it the belly of hell, or the grave, Jonah 2:2. He employed his time well there.