< Jonah 2 >
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
2 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 )
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. (Sheol )
3 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.
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
4 And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
5 Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
6 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.
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
7 In the feebleness of my soul within me, I have remembered YHWH, And my prayer comes to You, Into Your holy temple.
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
9 And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to You, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of YHWH.”
But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.