< Jonah 2 >
1 Then Jonah prayed to YHWH, his God, out of the fish's belly.
And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to YHWH. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. (Sheol )
And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. (Sheol )
3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your breakers and waves passed over me.
When Thou dost cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
5 The waters surrounded me, threatening my life. The deep was around me. The end is upon my head.
Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, YHWH my God.
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered YHWH. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
8 Those who regard worthless things forsake their faithfulness.
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to YHWH."
And I — with a voice of thanksgiving — I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of Jehovah.
10 YHWH spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.