Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
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)
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 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.
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 — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again towards your holy temple?
5 Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass 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 to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah 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 within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy 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 their own mercy forsake.
They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.
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 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 Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry [land].
