Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah 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)
and said: — I cried by reason of my distress to Jehovah, And he heard me: Out of the depth of the under-world I cried, And thou didst hear 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.
Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, And the flood compassed me about; All thy billows and thy 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!)
And I said, “I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again to thy 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 life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound 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 foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, And my prayer came to thee, To thy holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
They that honor lying vanities forsake their 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 thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed; Salvation is from Jehovah.
10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.
