Jonah 2
English Standard Version
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3
For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your breakers and your waves
passed over me.
4
Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5
The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head.
6
To the roots of the mountains I went down,
to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.
Yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7
When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8
Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9
But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
