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Jonah 2
Jonah’s Prayer
1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice. 3 For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me. 4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’ 5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head 6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O LORD my God. 7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the LORD,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple. 8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love. 9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the LORD!”
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
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