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              Chapter two and we find our "hero" trapped in the belly of a fish. Think about how that must have smelled, and felt. Imagine the fe4ar Jonah felt-- surely death was next on his agenda! Jonah is fearful for his life and pens his fear a poem:  “In my distress I called to the  Lord ,      and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,      and you listened to my cry. You hurled me into the depths,      into the very heart of the seas,      and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers      swept over me.   I said, ‘I have been banished      from your sight; yet I will look again      toward your holy temple.’   The engulfing waters threatened me,      the deep surrounded me;      seaweed was wrapped around my head.   To the roots of the mountains I sank down;      the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you,  Lord  my God,      brought my life up from the pit.   “When my life was ebbing away,