Jonah 2

1. (1:17) Adonai prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

2. (1) From the belly of the fish Yonah prayed to Adonai his God;

3. (2) he said, 3 “Out of my distress I called to Adonai, 3 and he answered me; 3 from the belly of Sh’ol I cried, 3 and you heard my voice.

4. (3) For you threw me into the deep, 4 into the heart of the seas; 4 and the flood enveloped me; 4 all your surging waves passed over me.

5. (4) I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight.’ 5 But I will again look at your holy temple.

6. (5) The water surrounded me, threatened my life; 6 the deep closed over me, seaweed twined around my head.

7. (6) I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains, 7 to a land whose bars would close me in forever; 7 but you brought me up alive from the pit, 7 Adonai, my God!

8. (7) As my life was ebbing away, 8 I remembered Adonai; 8 and my prayer came in to you, 8 into your holy temple.

9. (8) “Those who worship vain idols 9 give up their source of mercy;

10. (9) but I, speaking my thanks aloud, 10 will sacrifice to you; 10 what I have vowed, I will pay. 10 Salvation comes from Adonai!”

11. (10) Then Adonai spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah out onto dry land.