Jonah 2
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- 1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
- 2He said,
“I called because of my affliction to the LORD.
He answered me.
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried.
You heard my voice.Sheol is the place of the dead. - 3For you threw me into the depths,
in the heart of the seas.
The flood was all around me.
All your waves and your billows passed over me. - 4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again towards your holy temple.’ - 5The waters surrounded me,
even to the soul.
The deep was around me.
The weeds were wrapped around my head. - 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
The earth barred me in forever;
yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God. - 7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD.
My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. - 8Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
- 9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to the LORD.” - 10Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.