Jonah 2 - NKJV Bible Online

Jonah 2

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. 2 And he said:

“I ^acried out to the Lord because of my affliction,

^bAnd He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

And You heard my voice.

^aFor You cast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the floods surrounded me;

^bAll Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

^aThen I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;

Yet I will look again ^btoward Your holy temple.’

The ^awaters surrounded me, even to my soul;

The deep closed around me;

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

I went down to the ¹moorings of the mountains;

The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;

Yet You have brought up my ^alife from the pit,

O Lord, my God.

“When my soul fainted within me,

I remembered the Lord;

^aAnd my prayer went up to You,

Into Your holy temple.

“Those who regard ^aworthless idols

Forsake their own ¹Mercy.

But I will ^asacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving;

I will pay what I have ^bvowed.

^cSalvation is of the ^dLord.”

10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.