Jonah 2

CHAPTER 2

Jonah’s Prayer

¹¹Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God ^afrom the stomach of the fish,

²and he said,

“I ^acalled out of my distress to Yahweh,

And He answered me.

I cried for help from the belly of ^bSheol;

You heard my voice.

³“For You had ^acast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the current surrounded me.

All Your ^bbreakers and waves passed over me.

⁴“So I said, ‘I have been ^adriven away from ¹Your sight.

Nevertheless I will look again ^btoward Your holy temple.’

⁵“^aWater encompassed me to my very soul.

The great ^bdeep surrounded me,

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶“I ^awent down to the ¹base of the mountains.

The earth with its ^bbars closed behind me forever,

But You have ^cbrought up my life from ²the pit, O Yahweh my God.

⁷“While my soul was ^afainting within me,

I ^bremembered Yahweh,

And my ^cprayer came to You,

To ^dYour holy temple.

⁸“Those who ^aregard worthless idols

Forsake their lovingkindness,

⁹But as for me, I will ^asacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving.

That which I have vowed I will ^bpay.

^cSalvation belongs to Yahweh.”

¹⁰Then Yahweh spoke to the ^afish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.