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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 2:1 is numbered 1:17, and 2:1-10 is numbered 2:2-11.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JON.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="content">&#8220;In my distress I called to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="content">and he answered me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="content">From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="content">and you listened to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You hurled me into the depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="content">into the very heart of the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="content">and the currents swirled about me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="content">all your waves and breakers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="content">swept over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I said, &#8216;I have been banished</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.2.4"><span class="content">from your sight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.2.4"><span class="content">yet I will look again</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.2.4"><span class="content">toward your holy temple.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JON.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The engulfing waters threatened me,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">waters were at my throat</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JON.2.5"><span class="content">the deep surrounded me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JON.2.5"><span class="content">seaweed was wrapped around my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JON.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">To the roots of the mountains I sank down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.2.6"><span class="content">the earth beneath barred me in forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.2.6"><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.2.6"><span class="content">brought my life up from the pit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;When my life was ebbing away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.2.7"><span class="content">I remembered you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.2.7"><span class="content">and my prayer rose to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.2.7"><span class="content">to your holy temple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JON.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Those who cling to worthless idols</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JON.2.8"><span class="content">turn away from God&#8217;s love for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JON.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But I, with shouts of grateful praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.2.9"><span class="content">will sacrifice to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.2.9"><span class="content">What I have vowed I will make good.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.2.9"><span class="content">I will say, &#8216;Salvation comes from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JON.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.</span></span></div>
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