2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish.
2:2 He said: “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 billows and Your waves passed over me.
2:4 Then I said, ‘I am cast away from Your sight; yet I will look again to Your holy temple.’
2:5 The waters encompassed me; even to my soul the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head.
2:6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.
2:7 “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.
2:8 “Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
2:9 But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord!”
2:10 Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon dry land.
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