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Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

1 ^{▼▼ Ch 2:2 in Heb}Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the stomach of the fish, 2 and he said,

“I called out of my distress to Yahweh,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the belly of Sheol;
You heard my voice.
3 “For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current surrounded me.
All Your breakers and waves passed over me.
4 “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from ^{▼▼Lit before Your eyes}Your sight.
Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
5 “Water encompassed me to my very soul.
The great deep surrounded me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 “I went down to the ^{▼▼Lit bases}base of the mountains.
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever,
But You have brought up my life from ^{▼▼Or corruption}the pit, O Yahweh my God.
7 “While my soul was fainting within me,
I remembered Yahweh,
And my prayer came to You,
To Your holy temple.
8 “Those who regard worthless idols
Forsake their lovingkindness,
9 But as for me, I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving.
That which I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.