Jonah 2

A Psalm of Thanksgiving

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

“I called to the Lord out of my distress,

and he answered me;

out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

and you heard my voice.

³You cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

all your waves and your billows

passed over me.^*

⁴Then I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

how^d shall I look again

upon your holy temple?’^*

⁵The waters closed in over me;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped around my head^*

⁶at 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.^*

⁷As my life was ebbing away,

I remembered the Lord,

and my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple.^*

⁸Those who worship vain idols

forsake their true loyalty.^*

⁹But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”^*

¹⁰Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.