Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- Jonah ~~- chapter 2 of 4 (10 verses.)

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Jonah Cries Inside The Fish-Belly
1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ As Jonah [sinks into] the fish's belly, he begs YHVH Elohim [for life].
Gadol Dag (giant fish) was an expression for death, representing Abbadon. Jonah was not walking around in a fish’s belly for 3 days. Jonah died, entered the β€˜land of death,’ and about 72 hours later was resurrected, just as Jesus explained in Matt 12:40.
2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Jonah] calls, crying in the [fish's] tight [esophagus], β€œYHVH! See [me]!” [Jonah slides down into] the belly [that will be his] grave. [He screams,] β€œHelp! Free me! Listen to my call!
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ β€”[Why'd you] hurl me into the deep heart of the sea?! Floods, billows, currents surround and bury me! Waves [of filth] sweep over me!”
4 [The giant fish jets ahead to catch a shark. Jonah slams into the fish's stomach wall.] Jonah wails, β€œ[YHVH, don't] cast me out of your sight! Look down with compassion from your Sacred temple!”
5 [Jonah begins to] drown in the [stomach] acids of the fish! The abyss swallows him. Seaweed wraps around his head, strangles him!
Jonah Drowns In Fish Guts
6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Jonah thinks, β€œThis fish is going to poop me out. Then I'll] sink to the mountains on the ocean floor. Earth [gapes to jail] me forever in its [iron] bars!” [Jonah screams. His oxygen bubbles up through the stomach acids,] β€œYHVH Elohim, lift me out of this pit!
7 My life ebbs away! Remember me, YHVH! Let my prayer rise up into your Sacred [heavenly] temple!
8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guard me from destruction and [eternal] emptiness! Set me free! Be kind!”
9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Jonah makes one last dash up for air. He croaks,] β€œDon't slaughter me! Hear me screaming! Give me your hand! Lift me to safety! I promise I'll help you, YHVH!” [With a mighty rumble, the fish opens its stomach sphincter. Jonah plummets into the whirlpool. [He falls] into the fish's intestine. Down he sinks into a quicksand mound of gooey chyme. Jonah's last air-bubbles blurp up through the fish's intestine. Jonah's eyes close in death.]
Jonah Dies Then Gets Resurrected & Barfed Out
10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Jonah dies. 3 days and nights pass as microbes, acids and worm-parasites strip Jonah's flesh and melt his bones. Then YAH resurrects Jonah. Jonah crawls up out of the chyme, swims up to the stomach sphincter, forces it open. The stomach acids gush down, burning his eyes. He struggles through the opening, gets halfway up into the stomach. Suddenly] YHVH speaks to the fish. It vomits Jonah up onto dry land, πŸ˜‡!
Jesus and Jonah both passed 3 days and nights of literal death.
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