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Jonah 2:4

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Then I said, ‘O Lord, you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’

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for they will hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,

If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—

then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.

If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—

In panic I cried out, “I am cut off from the Lord!” But you heard my cry for mercy and answered my call for help.

But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.

Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house; I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.

Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude

Yes, this anguish was good for me, for you have rescued me from death and forgiven all my sins.

Yet Jerusalem says, “The Lord has deserted us; the Lord has forgotten us.”

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!

And I will send you out of my sight into exile, just as I did your relatives, the people of Israel.’

The water rose over my head, and I cried out, “This is the end!”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’

But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

As my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord. And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple.




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