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)
He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. 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 threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows 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!)
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will 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.
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped 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 went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, 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. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
Those who regard vain idols 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 which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”
10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
