1 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 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.
