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1 ౧ ఆ చేప కడుపులోనుంచి యోనా యెహోవాకు ఇలా ప్రార్థించాడు,
၁ငါး၏ဝမ်းထဲမှာနေစဉ်တွင်၊ ယောနသည် မိမိ ဘုရားသခင် ထာဝရဘုရားကို ဆုတောင်းသောစကားဟူ မူကား၊
2 ౨ “నా ఆపదలో నేను యెహోవాకు మొర్రపెట్టాను. ఆయన నాకు జవాబిచ్చాడు. మృత్యులోకం నుంచి నేను కేకలు వేస్తే నువ్వు నా స్వరం విన్నావు. (Sheol )
၂ငါသည် ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲကို ခံရသောကြောင့်၊ ထာဝရ ဘုရားကို ဟစ်ခေါ်၍ ငါ့စကားကို ကြားတော်မူ၏။ မရ ဏာနိုင်ငံ၏ဝမ်းထဲက ဟစ်ခေါ်သော စကားသံကို နား ထောင်တော်မူ၏။ (Sheol )
3 ౩ నువ్వు నన్ను అగాధంలో, సముద్రగర్భంలో పడవేశావు. ప్రవాహాలు నన్ను చుట్టుకున్నాయి. నీ అలలూ తరంగాలూ నా మీదుగా వెళ్తున్నాయి.
၃ကိုယ်တော်သည် အကျွန်ုပ်ကို နက်နဲသောအရပ်၊ သမုဒ္ဒရာအလယ်ချက်ထဲသို့ ချပစ်တော်မူသဖြင့်၊ ပင်လယ် ရေသည် ဝိုင်း၍ လှိုင်းတံပိုးတော်ရှိသမျှတို့သည် လွှမ်းမွန်း ကြပါ၏။
4 ౪ నీ సన్నిధినుంచి నన్ను తరిమి వేసినా, నీ పరిశుద్ధాలయం వైపు మళ్ళీ చూస్తాను అనుకున్నాను.
၄ထိုသို့ မျက်မှောက်တော်မှ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်းကို ခံရ သော်လည်း၊ သန့်ရှင်းသောဗိမာန်တော်ကို မျက်မှောက်ပြု မြဲ ပြုပါမည်ဟု အောက်မေ့လျက်နေ၏။
5 ౫ నీళ్ళు నన్ను చుట్టుకోవడంతో నేను కొనప్రాణంతో ఉన్నాను. సముద్రాగాధం నన్ను ఆవరించి ఉంది. సముద్రపు నాచు నా తలకు చుట్టుకుంది.
၅ရေတို့သည် အကျွန်ုပ်အသက်ကို သေစေခြင်းငှါ ဝိုင်းသဖြင့်၊ အကျွန်ုပ်သည် ပင်လယ်အလယ်၌ အချုပ်ခံရ ပါ၏။ ပင်လယ်မြက်ပင်သည် အကျွန်ုပ်ခေါင်းကို ပေါင်းစည်းလျက်ရှိပါ၏။
6 ౬ నేను మరెన్నటికీ ఎక్కి రాకుండా భూమి గడియలు నన్ను మూసివేశాయి. పర్వతాల పునాదుల్లోకి నేను దిగిపోయాను. నా దేవా, యెహోవా, నువ్వు నా జీవాన్ని అగాధంలో నుంచి పైకి రప్పించావు.
၆တောင်ခြေရင်းအမြစ်သို့ အကျွန်ုပ်ဆင်း၍၊ မြေ ကန့်လန့်ကျင်အတွင်း၌ အစဉ်အမြဲပိတ်ထားသော်လည်း၊ အကျွန်ုပ်၏ဘုရားသခင် ထာဝရဘုရား၊ ကိုယ်တော်သည် အကျွန်ုပ်အသက်ကို ပျက်စီးရာမှ ကယ်ဆယ်တော်မူလိမ့် မည်။
7 ౭ నా ప్రాణం నాలో కృశిస్తూ ఉంటే నేను యెహోవాను జ్ఞాపకం చేసుకున్నాను. నీ పరిశుద్ధాలయంలోకి నీదగ్గరికి నా ప్రార్థన చేరింది.
၇အကျွန်ုပ်သည် စိတ်ပျက်သောအခါ ထာဝရဘုရား ကို အောက်မေ့၍၊ အကျွန်ုပ်၏ပဌနာသည် သန့်ရှင်းသော ဗိမာန်တော်၌ ကိုယ်တော်ထံသို့ ဝင်ပါ၏။
8 ౮ వ్యర్థమైన విగ్రహ దేవుళ్ళ మీద లక్ష్యం ఉంచేవాళ్ళు తమ కొరకైన నీ విశ్వాస్యతను నిరాకరిస్తున్నారు.
၈မုသာအနတ္တကို မှီဝဲသောသူတို့သည် မိမိတို့ ကရုဏာခံရာအကြောင်းကို စွန့်ပစ်ကြပါ၏။
9 ౯ నా మట్టుకు నేను కృతజ్ఞతాస్తుతులతో నీకు బలి సమర్పిస్తాను. నేను మొక్కుకున్న దాన్ని తప్పక నెరవేరుస్తాను. యెహోవా దగ్గరే రక్షణ దొరుకుతుంది.”
၉အကျွန်ုပ်မူကား၊ ကျေးဇူးတော်ကို ချီးမွမ်းသော စကားနှင့် ကိုယ်တော်အား ယဇ်ပူဇော်ပါမည်။ သစ္စာဂတိ ထားသည်အတိုင်း သစ္စာဝတ်ကို ပြုပါမည်။ ထာဝရ ဘုရား၏ ကျေးဇူးတော်ကြောင့် ချမ်းသာရပါသည်ဟု ဆုတောင်းလေ၏။
10 ౧౦ అప్పుడు యెహోవా చేపకు ఆజ్ఞాపించగానే అది యోనాను పొడి నేల మీద కక్కి వేసింది.
၁၀ထိုအခါ ငါးကြီးသည် ထာဝရဘုရား၏ အမိန့် တော်ကို ခံ၍ ယောနကို ကုန်းပေါ်သို့ အန်လေ၏။