Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
2 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 h7585)
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. (Sheol h7585)
3 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.
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
4 And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
5 Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
6 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.
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
7 In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
9 And I — with a voice of thanksgiving — I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of Jehovah.
But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
