This sermon explores Jonah 2, showing Jonah as a highly orthodox, yet entirely unrepentant prophet whose psalm-filled prayer lacked acknowledgement and confession. The fish begins as judgement, swallowing up Jonah. But it is then a place of refuge, like the Ark, protecting Jonah from the great deep. Inside this refuge, Jonah constantly uses Psalm-language to describe his situation, yet unlike David in the Psalms, he never acknowledges his iniquity and folly, much less does he repent. The fish therefore becomes judgement again, vomiting him out – a sign that Israel itself would be judged by God by being vomited out of the land 40 years later.
