Jonah’s Prayer
1 Jonah prayed to theLordhis God from insidethe fish:
2 I called to theLordin my distress,
and He answered me.
I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;
You heard my voice.
3 You threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
and the currentovercame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.
4 But I said: I have been banished
from Your sight,
yet I will look once more
toward Your holy temple.
5 The waters engulfed me up to the neck;
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains;
the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!
But You raised my lifefrom the Pit,Lordmy God!
7 As my life was fading away,
I remembered Yahweh.
My prayer came to You,
to Your holy temple.
8 Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,
9 but as for me, I will sacrificeto You
with a voice of thanksgiving.
I will fulfillwhat I have vowed.
Salvationis from theLord!
10 Then theLordcommanded the fish,and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
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