2:1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:
2:2 I called to the Lord in my distress, and he answered me. I cried out for help from deep inside Sheol; you heard my voice.
2:3 When you threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
2:4 And I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.”
2:5 The water engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
2:6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!
2:7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
2:8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,
2:9 but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord.
2:10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
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