unimaginably traumatic experience inside the fish’s belly for “three days and three nights,” Jonah prays with intensity and even eloquence. “And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land” (2:10). Standing at last on dry ground, with a fresh start in life, Jonah is divinely recommissioned as if nothing had happened: Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” (3:1–2)