Jonah 2
Chapter 2 of 4
1 Jonah’s Prayer. But the Lord sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2 Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish:
3 Out of my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me; From the womb of Sheol I cried for help, and you heard my voice.
4 You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, and the flood enveloped me; All your breakers and your billows passed over me.
5 Then I said, “I am banished from your sight! How will I again look upon your holy temple?”
6 The waters surged around me up to my neck; the deep enveloped me; seaweed wrapped around my head.
7 I went down to the roots of the mountains; to the land whose bars closed behind me forever, But you brought my life up from the pit, O Lord, my God.
8 When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.
9 Those who worship worthless idols abandon their hope for mercy.
10 But I, with thankful voice, will sacrifice to you; What I have vowed I will pay: deliverance is from the Lord.
11 Then the Lord commanded the fish to vomit Jonah upon dry land.