Jonah 2

¹Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly.

²And he said:

“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,

And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

And You heard my voice.

³For You cast me into the deep,[#Ps. 88:6]

Into the heart of the seas,

And the floods surrounded me;

All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

⁴Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;[#Ps. 31:22; Jer. 7:15]

Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

⁵The waters surrounded me, even to my soul;[#Ps. 69:1; Lam. 3:54]

The deep closed around me;

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶I went down to the moorings of the mountains;

The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;

Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,

O Lord , my God.

⁷“When my soul fainted within me,

I remembered the Lord ;

And my prayer went up to You,

Into Your holy temple.

⁸“Those who regard worthless idols[#2 Kin. 17:15; Ps. 31:6; Jer. 10:8]

Forsake their own Mercy.

⁹But I will sacrifice to You[#Ps. 50:14, 23; Jer. 33:11; Hos. 14:2]

With the voice of thanksgiving;

I will pay what I have vowed.

Salvation is of the Lord .”

¹⁰So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.