¹Adonai prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

²From the belly of the fish Yonah prayed to Adonai his God;

³he said,

“Out of my distress I called to Adonai ,

and he answered me;

from the belly of Sh’ol I cried,

and you heard my voice.

⁴For you threw me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas;

and the flood enveloped me;

all your surging waves passed over me.

⁵I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight.’

But I will again look at your holy temple.

⁶The water surrounded me, threatened my life;

the deep closed over me, seaweed twined around my head.

⁷I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains,

to a land whose bars would close me in forever;

but you brought me up alive from the pit,

Adonai , my God!

⁸As my life was ebbing away,

I remembered Adonai ;

and my prayer came in to you,

into your holy temple.

⁹“Those who worship vain idols

give up their source of mercy;

¹⁰but I, speaking my thanks aloud,

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed, I will pay.

Salvation comes from Adonai !”

¹¹Then Adonai spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah out onto dry land.