Scripture for the Week of November 25th: Jonah 2:1-10

Crozet United Methodist Church   -  

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I called to the LORD out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.  You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.  Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’  The waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head at the roots of the mountains.  I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.  As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.  Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.  But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.  Deliverance belongs to the LORD!”  Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.