Jonah 2
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1#Job 13:15; Ps 130:1–2Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish. 2#Ps 120:1; 34:6He 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.
3#Ps 42:7; 69:1–2 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.
4#Ps 31:22; 2Ch 6:38 Then I said, ‘I am cast away
from Your sight;
yet I will look again
to Your holy temple.’
5#Ps 69:1–2; La 3:54 The waters encompassed me; even to my soul
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head.
6#Job 33:28; Ps 16:10 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.
7#2Ch 30:27; Ps 11:4 “When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered the Lord;
and my prayer came to You,
into Your holy temple.
8#2Ki 17:15; Ps 31:6 “Those who follow vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.
9#Ps 3:8; 50:14 But I will sacrifice to You
with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvation is of the Lord!”
10#Jnh 1:17Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon dry land.
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Jonah 2
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Jonah's Prayer
1From deep inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God:
2“In my distress, O LORD, I called to you,
and you answered me.
From deep in the world of the dead
I cried for help, and you heard me.
3You threw me down into the depths,
to the very bottom of the sea,
where the waters were all round me,
and all your mighty waves rolled over me.
4I thought I had been banished from your presence
and would never see your holy Temple again.
5The water came over me and choked me;
the sea covered me completely,
and seaweed was wrapped round my head.
6I went down to the very roots of the mountains,
into the land whose gates lock shut for ever.#2.6 the land whose gates lock shut for ever: A reference to the world of the dead (see 2.2).
But you, O LORD my God,
brought me back from the depths alive.
7When I felt my life slipping away,
then, O LORD, I prayed to you,
and in your holy Temple you heard me.
8Those who worship worthless idols
have abandoned their loyalty to you.
9But I will sing praises to you;
I will offer you a sacrifice
and do what I have promised.
Salvation comes from the LORD!”
10Then the LORD ordered the fish to spew Jonah up on the beach, and it did.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.