God’s justice is retributive—it deals with sin as sin deserves—it is this reality that both terrifies the unrepentant and comforts the humble.

Yahweh comforts his oppressed and plundered people with a vision of what lies ahead—a judgment that doesn’t just bring deliverance, but restoration to glory as well.

God gives his people hope, in the midst of their grief, by directing their eyes to Mount Zion from where their hope comes and to assure them that they will one day feast in his presence.

In this section we see that God comforts his afflicted people with a promise that he will judge those who mistreat his people.

God gives and removes temporal blessings in order to teach Jonah to value the gifts he gives out of his free and loving grace.