2:1 Adonai prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
2:2 From the belly of the fish Yonah prayed to Adonai his God;
2:3 he said, “Out of my distress I called to Adonai, and he answered me; from the belly of Sh’ol I cried, and you heard my voice.
2:4 For you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the flood enveloped me; all your surging waves passed over me.
2:5 I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight.’ But I will again look at your holy temple.
2:6 The water surrounded me, threatened my life; the deep closed over me, seaweed twined around my head.
2:7 I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains, to a land whose bars would close me in forever; but you brought me up alive from the pit, Adonai, my God!
2:8 As my life was ebbing away, I remembered Adonai; and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
2:9 “Those who worship vain idols give up their source of mercy;
2:10 but I, speaking my thanks aloud, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed, I will pay. Salvation comes from Adonai!”
2:11 Then Adonai spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah out onto dry land.
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