Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
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 by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, 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 had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed 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!)
Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again 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 compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about 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 went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, 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.
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
They that observe lying vanities forsake 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 thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
