Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

1Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish: # 2:1 Jb 13:15; Ps 130:1–2; Lm 3:53–56

2I called to the Lord in my distress, # 2:2 1Sm 30:6; Ps 18:4–6; 22:24; 120:1

and he answered me.

I cried out for help from deep inside # 2:2 Lit from the stomach of Sheol; # 2:2 Ps 18:5–6; 86:13; 88:1–7; Is 28:15; 38:18

you heard my voice. # 2:2 Ps 34:7

3When you threw me into the depths, # 2:3 Ps 69:1–2,14–15; Lm 3:54

into the heart of the seas, # 2:3 Neh 9:11

the current # 2:3 Lit river overcame me.

All your breakers and your billows swept over me. # 2:3 Ps 42:7

4And I said, “I have been banished # 2:4 Lv 21:7

from your sight, # 2:4 Ps 31:22–23; Jr 7:15

yet I will look # 2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look . . . ? once more

toward your holy temple.” # 2:4 1Kg 8:38; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; 138:2

5The water engulfed me up to the neck; # 2:5 Or me, threatening my life,# 2:5 Ps 69:1–2; 105:18; Pr 23:2; Lm 3:54

the watery depths overcame me;

seaweed was wrapped around my head. # 2:5 Ps 18:4–5

6I sank to the foundations of the mountains, # 2:6 Ps 116:3

the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! # 2:6 Jb 38:10; Ps 9:13; Is 38:10; Mt 16:18

Then you raised my life # 2:6 Jb 33:28; Ps 16:10; 30:3; Is 38:17 from the Pit, Lord my God! # 2:6 Ps 30:3; 86:13

7As my life was fading away, # 2:7 Ps 142:3

I remembered the Lord, # 2:7 2Sm 14:11; Ps 77:10–11; 143:5

and my prayer came to you, # 2:7 2Ch 30:27; Ps 18:6

to your holy temple. # 2:7 Ps 11:4; 65:4; 88:2; Mc 1:2; Hab 2:20

8Those who cherish worthless idols # 2:8 2Kg 17:15; Ps 31:6; Jr 16:18

abandon their faithful love, # 2:8 Ps 31:6

9but as for me, I will sacrifice # 2:9 Ps 50:14,23; Jr 33:11; Hs 14:2 to you

with a voice of thanksgiving. # 2:9 Ps 26:7

I will fulfill # 2:9 Jb 22:27; Ps 22:25; 116:14,18; Ec 5:4–5 what I have vowed.

Salvation # 2:9 Or Deliverance belongs to the Lord. # 2:9 Ps 3:8; Is 12:2; 45:17; Rv 7:10

10Then the Lord commanded the fish, # 2:10 Jnh 1:17 and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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Yonah 2

1 Now Hashem had prepared a dag gadol (great fish) to swallow up Yonah. And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights). 2 Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly, 3 And said,

I cried by reason of mine tzoros unto Hashem,

He heard me;

out of the belly of Sheol cried I,

and Thou heardest my voice.

4 For Thou hadst cast me into the deep,

in the midst of the yamim (seas);

and the current swirled about me;

all Thy billows and Thy waves

passed over me.

5 Then I said:

I am cast out of Thy sight;

yet I will look again

toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh.

6 The mayim compassed me about, even to the nefesh;

the depth closed me round about,

the seaweed were wrapped about my head.

7 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

ha'aretz with her bars closed behind me l'olam;

yet hast Thou brought up my life from shachat (corruption),#2:7 See Ps 16:10

Hashem Elohai.

8 When my nefesh fainted within me,

I remembered Hashem;

and my tefillah came unto Thee,

into Thine Heikhal Kodesh.

9 They that observe lying vanities

forsake their own chesed.

10 But I will sacrifice unto Thee

with the voice of todah;

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Yeshu'ah (Salvation) is from Hashem.

11 And Hashem spoke unto HaDag (The Fish), and it vomited out Yonah upon the yabashah (dry land).

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