Chapter 5: Dry Ground

Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. The sun hitting his face for the first time since he boarded that ship. He was unexpectedly alive.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time.

GOD“Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”— Jonah 3:1-2

The same command. This time, Jonah went. He got up and started walking toward Nineveh — sun-bleached, reeking of the sea, carrying nothing but the word God had given him.