< Jonah 2 >
1 And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
And he prayed Jonah to Yahweh God his from [the] inward parts 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 )
And he said I called from distress of me to Yahweh and he answered me from [the] belly of Sheol I cried for help you heard voice my. (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.
And you have thrown me [the] deep in [the] heart of [the] seas and a river it surrounds me all breakers your and waves your over me they have passed.
4 And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
And I I said I have been driven away from before eyes your nevertheless I will repeat to look to [the] temple of holiness your.
5 Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
They have encompassed me waters to [the] neck [the] deep it surrounds me rush[es] [is] wrapped round to head my.
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 extremities of mountains I went down the earth bars its [were] behind me for ever and you brought up from [the] pit life my O Yahweh God my.
7 In the feebleness of my soul within me, I have remembered YHWH, And my prayer comes to You, Into Your holy temple.
When fainted away on me life my Yahweh I remembered and it came to you prayer my to [the] temple of holiness your.
8 Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
[those who] pay regard Vanities of nothingness loyalty their they abandon.
9 And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to You, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of YHWH.”
And I with a voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you [that] which I have vowed I will fulfill rescue [belongs] to Yahweh.
10 And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
And he spoke Yahweh to the fish and it vomited up Jonah to the dry land.