Jonah 2
1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, out of 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 out of my distress, to the Lord and he answered me; out of the midst of Sheol I cried aloud, 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 heart of the seas, and the great flood rolled about me; all your breakers 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 driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards 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 surrounded me, the great deep engulfed me, the sea 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 roots of the mountains; the prison of the earth closed over me forever. Yet you brought up my life from destruction, 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 slipped away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer reached you, in your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
Those who worship worthless idols abandon 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 loud thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is the Lord’s.
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 threw up Jonah upon the dry land.
