Chapter 2 — The Old Testament Book of Jonah

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.