Jonah's Prayer

Jonah 2

¹ Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,

² saying,

"I called to the Lord out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
³ You cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
⁴ Then I said, "I am driven away
from your sight;
how ₁ shall I look again
upon your holy temple?'
⁵ The waters closed in over me;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head
⁶ at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Lord my God.
⁷ As my life was ebbing away,
I remembered the Lord;
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
⁸ Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.
⁹ But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord!"

¹⁰ Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.