< Jonas 2 >
1 And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
2 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice. (Sheol )
And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. (Sheol )
3 You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me.
When Thou dost cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
4 And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again towards your holy temple?
And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
5 Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass 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 to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
7 When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple.
In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
8 They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to you, the Lord of [my] salvation.
And I — with a voice of thanksgiving — I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of Jehovah.
10 And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry [land].
And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.