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Jonah 2:4

Good News Translation

I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

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If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,

then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt.

If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,

I was afraid and thought that he had driven me out of his presence. But he heard my cry, when I called to him for help.

May the Lord show his constant love during the day, so that I may have a song at night, a prayer to the God of my life.

But because of your great love I can come into your house; I can worship in your holy Temple and bow down to you in reverence.

You have thrown me into the depths of the tomb, into the darkest and deepest pit.

Your anger lies heavy on me, and I am crushed beneath its waves.

My bitterness will turn into peace. You save my life from all danger; You forgive all my sins.

But the people of Jerusalem said, “The Lord has abandoned us! He has forgotten us.”

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.

I will drive you out of my sight as I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near.

God said to me, “Mortal man, the people of Israel are like these bones. They say that they are dried up, without any hope and with no future.

When Daniel learned that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced toward Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day.

When I felt my life slipping away, then, O Lord, I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.




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