Jonah 2

Jonah Prays to the Lord

2From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. ²He said,

“When I was in trouble, I called out to you.

And you answered me.

When I had almost drowned,

I called out for help.

And you listened to my cry.

³You threw me into the Mediterranean Sea.

I was in the middle of its waters.

They were all around me.

All of your rolling waves

were sweeping over me.

⁴I said, ‘I have been driven away from you.

But I will look again

toward your holy temple in Jerusalem.’

⁵I had almost drowned in the waves.

The deep waters were all around me.

Seaweed was wrapped around my head.

⁶I sank down to the bottom of the mountains.

I thought I had died

and gone down into the grave forever.

But you brought my life up

from the very edge of the pit.

You are the Lord my God.

⁷“When my life was nearly over,

I remembered you, Lord.

My prayer rose up to you.

It reached you in your holy temple in heaven.

⁸“Some people worship the worthless statues of their gods.

They turn away from the grace

you want to give them.

⁹But I will sacrifice a thank offering to you.

And I will sing a song of thanks.

I will do what I have promised.

Lord, you are the one who saves.”

¹⁰The Lord gave the fish a command. And it spit Jonah up onto dry land.