2:1 Now Adonai prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2:2 Then Jonah prayed to Adonai his God from the belly of the fish,
2:3 saying: “From my distress I cried to Adonai and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help and you heard my voice.
2:4 For you hurled me from the deep into the heart of the seas, and currents swirled around me. All your waves and your breakers swept over me.”
2:5 And I said, “I have been banished from before your eyes. Yet I will continue to look toward your holy Temple.”
2:6 Waters surrounded me up to my soul. The deep sea engulfed me— reeds clung to my head.
2:7 To the bottoms of the mountains I went down. The earth with her bars was around me, forever! Yet You brought my life up from the Pit, Adonai my God.
2:8 As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.
2:9 Those who watch worthless empty things forsake their mercy.
2:10 But I, with a voice of thanks will sacrifice to you. What I vowed, I will pay. Salvation is from Adonai.”
2:11 Then Adonai spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.
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