Chapter 2
Jonah’s Prayer. 1 But the Lord sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish:
3 Out of my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me;
From the womb of Sheol I cried for help,
and you heard my voice.
4 You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,
and the flood enveloped me;
All your breakers and your billows
passed over me.
5 Then I said, “I am banished from your sight!
How will I again look upon your holy temple?”
6 The waters surged around me up to my neck;
the deep enveloped me;
seaweed wrapped around my head.
7 I went down to the roots of the mountains;
to the land whose bars closed behind me forever,
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O Lord, my God.
8 When I became faint,
I remembered the Lord;
My prayer came to you
in your holy temple.
9 Those who worship worthless idols
abandon their hope for mercy.
10 But I, with thankful voice,
will sacrifice to you;
What I have vowed I will pay:
deliverance is from the Lord.
11 Then the Lord commanded the fish to vomit Jonah upon dry land.