< Jonah 2 >
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
Then Ionah prayed vnto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly,
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 )
And said, I cryed in mine affliction vnto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the bellie of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce. (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 thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.
4 And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
Then I saide, I am cast away out of thy sight: yet will I looke againe towarde thine holy Temple.
5 Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
The waters compassed me about vnto the soule: the depth closed me rounde about, and the weedes were wrapt about mine 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.
I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp 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.
When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lord: and my prayer came vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
They that waite vpon lying vanities, forsake their owne mercie.
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 will sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thankesgiuing, and will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lord.
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And the Lord spake vnto the fish, and it cast out Ionah vpon the dry lande.