Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

1Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish:[#Lit from the belly of; #Jb 13:15; Ps 130:1-2; Lm 3:53-56]

2I called to the Lord in my distress,[#1Sm 30:6; Ps 18:4-6; 22:24; 120:1]

and He answered me.

I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;

You heard my voice.

3You threw me into the depths,[#Ps 69:1-2,14-15; Lm 3:54]

into the heart of the seas,

and the current overcame me.

All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

4But I said: I have been banished[#Lv 21:7]

from Your sight,

yet I will look once more

toward Your holy temple.

5The waters engulfed me up to the neck;[#Or me, threatening my life; #Ps 69:1-2; 105:18; Pr 23:2; Lm 3:54]

the watery depths overcame me;

seaweed was wrapped around my head.

6I sank to the foundations of the mountains;[#Ps 116:3]

the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!

But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

7As my life was fading away,[#Ps 142:3]

I remembered Yahweh.

My prayer came to You,

to Your holy temple.

8Those who cling to worthless idols[#2Kg 17:15; Ps 31:6; Jr 16:18]

forsake faithful love,

9but as for me, I will sacrifice to You[#Ps 50:14,23; Jr 33:11; Hs 14:2]

with a voice of thanksgiving.

I will fulfill what I have vowed.

Salvation is from the Lord !

10Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.[#Jnh 1:17]

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