Jonah’s Prayer and God’s Answer
1Then Jonah prayed to theLord his God from the fish’s belly.2And he said:
“I cried out to theLord because of my affliction,
And He answered me.
“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
3For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
4Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
5The waters surrounded me,even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6I went down to the[a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its barsclosed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,
OLord, my God.
7“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered theLord;
And my prayer wentup to You,
Into Your holy temple.
8“Those who regard worthless idols
Forsake their own[b]Mercy.
9But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvationis of theLord.”
10So theLord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dryland.
Footnotes:
- Jonah 2:6
- Jonah 2:8
