Jonah 2

Chapter 2

Jonah’s Prayer

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

²and he said,

“I ^acalled out of my distress to the Lord,

And He answered me.

I cried for help from the ¹depth of ^bSheol;

You heard my voice.

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

Into the heart of the seas,

And the current ¹engulfed me.

All Your ^bbreakers and billows passed over me.

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

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

⁵“^aWater encompassed me to the ¹point of death.

The great ^bdeep ²engulfed me,

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶“I ^adescended to the roots of the mountains.

The earth with its ^bbars was around me forever,

But You have ^cbrought up my life from ¹the pit, O Lord my God.

⁷“While ¹I was ^afainting away,

I ^bremembered the Lord,

And my ^cprayer came to You,

Into ^dYour holy temple.

⁸“Those who ^aregard ¹vain idols

Forsake their faithfulness,

⁹But I will ^asacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving.

That which I have vowed I will ^bpay.

^cSalvation is from the Lord.”

¹⁰Then the Lord commanded the ^afish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.