“All your allies will turn against you.
They will help to chase you from your land.
They will promise you peace
while plotting to deceive and destroy you.
Your trusted friends will set traps for you,
and you won’t even know about it.
“Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”
Then they cried out to the lord, Jonah’s God. “O lord,” they pleaded,
As my life was slipping away,
I remembered the lord.
And my earnest prayer went out to you
in your holy Temple.
everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. 9Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
The lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry about this?”
God is good always, why do we pray earnestly when in trouble and not so much in gratitude.
Lord God,
remove my selfish way and release in me earnest desire to always seek you in all I am.