Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance

¹⁷ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And ^(A)Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

⁴ And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then ^(A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

¹³ So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them ^(A)wander in the wilderness forty years, until ^(B)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.

^35 (A)‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I ^[a]swore to give to your fathers,

³³ And your sons shall ^(A)be ^[a]shepherds in the wilderness ^(B)forty years, and ^(C)bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. ^34 (D)According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, ^(E)forty days, for each day you shall bear your ^[b]guilt one year, namely forty years, ^(F)and you shall know My ^[c]rejection. ^35 (G)I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all ^(H)this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”