Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah from the belly of the fish,
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 distress to Jehovah, And he heard me: Out of the depth of the under-world I cried, And thou didst hear 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.
Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, And the flood compassed me about; All thy billows and thy 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!)
And I said, “I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again to thy 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 life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound 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.
I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, And my prayer came to thee, To thy holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
They that honor lying vanities forsake their 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 thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed; Salvation is from Jehovah.
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.
