Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish.
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)
He began, “In my agony I cried out to the Lord and he answered me; from the depths of Sheol I pleaded for help and you answered me. (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 threw me into the deep, all the way down to the bottom of the sea. Water flooded all around me; your crashing waves rolled 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!)
I said to myself, ‘The Lord has banished me from his sight. Will I ever see your holy Temple again?’
5 Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
The water swirled over me so I couldn't breathe; the deep sucked me down; seaweed wrapped itself 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.
I sank down to the base of the mountains; the earth barred me in forever. But you, my Lord, my God, brought me back up from the abyss.
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 ebbed away, I remembered the Lord; my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
Those who worship worthless idols give up their trust in God's goodness.
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 offer you sacrifices, shouting out my thanks. I will keep my promises to you, for salvation comes from the Lord.”
10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
Then the Lord told the fish to spit out Jonah onto the shore.
