Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s 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 h7585)
And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice. (Sheol h7585)
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 had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over 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 said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again 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 compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about 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.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, 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 soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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 to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
