Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
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 in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: 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.
You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me.
4 And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed 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.
Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down
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 clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.
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 was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken 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 praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to you, the Lord of [my] salvation.
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry [land].
