Jonah 2
1 And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish.
And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
2 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard 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 And thou hast cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over 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 away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
5 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.
Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
6 I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
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 in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto 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 are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.
Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.
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 Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the dry land.
And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
