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Jonah was chosen by God to go to Nineveh and cry against that wicked city. Jonah did not wish to go. He was reluctant to carry out his responsibility. He fled from the face of the Lord. The spirit died within him, and he was cast into the sea of materialism. He was swallowed up by the whale of earthly desires and disobedience. All signs of Jonah’s spiritual life had vanished. Jonah himself declared that he cried out to the Lord from "hell". The belly of the whale was the grave of his disobedience and lack of understanding.
(104:1)
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