He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.
"The heart of every problem is the problem of the heart, and that’s where Jonah’s problems were to be found." [Note: Wiersbe, p. 385.] 