Jonah's Prayer of Deliverance in the Book of Exodus

The reference to the reed at the end of verse five is a surprising one, translated as weeds. Keven young blood observes that this is another surprising detail of the text. As jona finds himself bound and yanked down by the entangling river plants, he also observes that language are being enclosed, enveloped and wrapped. All invoke a process of jonah being wrapped in grave clothes and buried in a tomb. Jonah calls out to the lord, seeking his holy temple. The fish vomits jonah out upon the dry land. We might think of the fish here as a sort of leviathan, a great and terrible sea monster who is nevertheless under the rule of