Yonah 2

¹Now Hashem had prepared a dag gadol (great fish) to swallow up Yonah. And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights) .

²Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly,

³And said,

I cried by reason of mine tzoros unto Hashem ,

He heard me;

out of the belly of Sheol cried I,

and Thou heardest my voice.

⁴For Thou hadst cast me into the deep,

in the midst of the yamim (seas) ;

and the current swirled about me;

all Thy billows and Thy waves

passed over me.

⁵Then I said:

I am cast out of Thy sight;

yet I will look again

toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh.

⁶The mayim compassed me about, even to the nefesh;

the depth closed me round about,

the seaweed were wrapped about my head.

⁷I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

ha'aretz with her bars closed behind me l'olam;

yet hast Thou brought up my life from shachat (corruption) ,

Hashem Elohai.

⁸When my nefesh fainted within me,

I remembered Hashem ;

and my tefillah came unto Thee,

into Thine Heikhal Kodesh.

⁹They that observe lying vanities

forsake their own chesed.

¹⁰But I will sacrifice unto Thee

with the voice of todah;

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Yeshu'ah (Salvation) is from Hashem .

¹¹And Hashem spoke unto HaDag (The Fish) , and it vomited out Yonah upon the yabashah (dry land) .