But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD my God. 7“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple. Sometimes the Lord has to bring his loved ones to the lowest depths of despair before he can raise them to the heights of hope and joy. Such was the case with drowning Jonah. As “the engulfing waters” surrounded him and the “seaweed was wrapped around” his head, tying him up like a bundle of firewood, Jonah felt himself sinking helplessly