Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.
And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
2 And he said: “I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice. (Sheol h7585)
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 h7585)
3 And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over 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 expelled from the sight of your eyes. Yet, truly, I will see your holy temple again.
And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head.
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
6 I descended to the base of the mountains. The bars of the earth have enclosed me forever. And you will raise up my life from corruption, Lord, my God.
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 in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to 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 Those who in vain observe vanities, abandon their own mercy.
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
9 But I, with a voice of praise, will sacrifice to you. I will repay whatever I have vowed to the Lord, because 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 Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
