2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,
2:2 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.
2:3 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.
2:4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’
2:5 The waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head
2:6 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.
2:7 As my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
2:8 Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
2:9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”
2:10 Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.
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