Jonah Is Swallowed by a Fish and Prays to Yahweh

[fn] And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

2 And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish 2 and said,

• “I called from my distress[fn] to Yahweh,
  • and he answered me;
• from the belly of Sheol[fn] I cried for help—
  • you heard my voice.
  • 3 And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas,
  • and the sea currents surrounded me;
• all your breakers and your surging waves
  • passed over me.
  • 4 And I said, ‘I am banished[fn] from your sight;
• how[fn] will I continue to look[fn]
  • on your holy temple ?’[fn]
  • 5 The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me;
  • seaweed was wrapped around my head.
  • 6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever.
• But you brought up my life from the pit,
  • Yahweh my God.
  • 7 When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh,
• and my prayer came to you,
  • to your holy temple .[fn]
  • 8 Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.[fn]
  • 9 But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you;
• I will fulfill what I have vowed.
  • Deliverance[fn] belongs to Yahweh!”
  
  

10 And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land.