Jonah’s song

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2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, out of the belly of the fish, 2 and said:

I cried out of my distress, to the Lord

and he answered me;

out of the midst of Sheol I cried aloud,

and you heard my voice.

3 For you cast me into the deep,

into heart of the seas,

and the great flood rolled about me;

all your breakers and your waves

passed over me.

4 Then I said, I am driven out,

away from your sight;

How will I ever again

look towards your holy temple?

5 The waters surrounded me,

the great deep engulfed me,

the sea weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the roots of the mountains;

the prison of the earth closed over me forever.

Yet you brought up my life from destruction,

O Lord my God.

7 As my life slipped away,

I remembered the Lord;

and my prayer reached you,

in your holy temple.

8 Those who worship worthless idols

abandon their own mercy,

9 but I will sacrifice to you

with loud thanksgiving!

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Salvation is the Lord’s.

10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it threw up Jonah upon the dry land.