Jonas 2
1 And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
2 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice. (Sheol h7585)
And he says: “I called, because of my distress, to YHWH, And He answers me, From the belly of Sheol I have cried, You have heard my voice. (Sheol h7585)
3 Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.
When You cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood surrounds me, All Your breakers and Your billows have passed over me.
4 And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
5 Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down
Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
6 to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me for all time. And You bring my life up from the pit, O YHWH my God.
7 When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.
In the feebleness of my soul within me, I have remembered YHWH, And my prayer comes to You, Into Your holy temple.
8 They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.
Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, the Lord of [my] salvation.
And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to You, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of YHWH.”
10 And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry [land].
And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
