Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

2Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, ²saying,

^x“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

and he answered me;

^yout of the belly of Sheol I cried,

^zand you heard my voice.

^3aFor you cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

^ball your breakers and your waves

passed over me.

^4cThen I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

^dyet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’

^5eThe waters closed in over me ^fto take my life;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head.

⁶To 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.

⁷When my life was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

^gand my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple.

^8hThose who pay regard to vain idols

ⁱforsake their hope of steadfast love.

^9jBut I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

^kSalvation belongs to the Lord!”

¹⁰And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.