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katapi HOME Jonah 2:1-10 - Jonah's prayer.  Jon.2.1-10

2 1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish, 2 2 saying,

"I called to Yahweh, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
2 3 For you casted me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood was round about me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
2 4 Then I said, 'I am cast out
from your presence;
how shall I again look
upon your holy temple?
2 5 The waters closed over me,
the deep was round me;
weeds are wrapped about my head
2 6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me for ever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Yahweh my God.
2 7 When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered Yahweh;
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
2 8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.
2 9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to Yahweh!" 2 10 And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.