Chapter 2

Jonah prays from inside the fish. 

2024 - In 2:2b, Jonah says "I cried for help.  You heard my voice.  Transliterated this is only three words.  Phonetically, they are shah-vah, shah-ma, cole. At least that is what the root words are.  I really don't know how it sounds with "endings" it has.  I would like to figure it out.  Here is what it looks like in Hebrew:  שִׁוַּעְתִּי שָׁמַעְתָּ קוֹלִי׃

Remember that it reads right to left.

4 Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.' [Jon 2:4 ESV]  As a result of his repentance, God speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah up on dry land.

I like this translation best though:

4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. [Jon 2:4 KJV]

2024 - Oh my!  Jonah behaves the same as the sailors did.  It was AFTER he was saved that he made his vows.  Here is the verse:

9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!" [Jon 2:9 ESV].  God delivered Jonah in 6b.  Then the vows.  Maybe...it isn't until 10 that the fish spits him out.