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Jonah 2:1-10

1 Then Jo´nah prayed to Jehovah his God from the inward parts of the fish 2 and said:

“Out of my distress I called out to Jehovah, and he proceeded to answer me.
Out of the belly of She´ol I cried for help.
You heard my voice.

3 When you threw me [to] the depths, into the heart of the open sea,
Then a very river encircled me.
All your breakers and your waves—over me they passed on.

4 And as for me, I said, ‘I have been driven away from in front of your eyes!
How shall I gaze again upon your holy temple?’

5 Waters encircled me clear to [the] soul; the watery deep itself kept enclosing me.
Weeds were wound around my head.

6 To the bottoms of [the] mountains I went down.
As for the earth, its bars were upon me for time indefinite.
But out of [the] pit you proceeded to bring up my life, O Jehovah my God.

7 When my soul fainted away within me, Jehovah was the One whom I remembered.
Then my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

8 As for those who are observing the idols of untruth, they leave their own loving-kindness.

9 But as for me, with the voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed, I will pay. Salvation belongs to Jehovah.”

10 In time Jehovah commanded the fish, so that it vomited out Jo´nah onto the dry land.