Jonah’s Prayer
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God afrom the stomach of the fish, 2 and he said,
“I acalled out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the depth of bSheol;
You heard my voice.
3 “For You had acast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me.
All Your bbreakers and billows passed over me.
4 “So I said, ‘I have been aexpelled from Your sight.
Nevertheless I will look again btoward Your holy temple.’
5 “aWater encompassed me to the point of death.
The great bdeep engulfed me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 “I adescended to the roots of the mountains.
The earth with its bbars was around me forever,
But You have cbrought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.
7 “While I was afainting away,
I bremembered the Lord,
And my cprayer came to You,
Into dYour holy temple.
8 “Those who aregard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,
9 But I will asacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving.
That which I have vowed I will bpay.
cSalvation is from the Lord.”
10 Then the Lord commanded the afish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
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