• Jonah’s Prayer

  • 1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the stomach of the fish,
  • 2 and he said, “I called out of my distress to Yahweh, And He answered me. I cried for help from the belly of Sheol; You heard my voice.
  • 3 “For You had cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and waves passed over me.
  • 4 “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
  • 5 “Water encompassed me to my very soul. The great deep surrounded me, Weeds were wrapped around my head.
  • 6 “I went down to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed behind me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.
  • 7 “While my soul was fainting within me, I remembered Yahweh, And my prayer came to You, To Your holy temple.
  • 8 “Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their lovingkindness,
  • 9 But as for me, I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
  • 10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.