[1] Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly, [2] And said, I cried out of my distress to the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and You heard my voice. [3] For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your waves and Your billows passed over me. [4] Then I said, I have been cast out of Your presence and Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. [5] The waters compassed me about, even to [the extinction of] life; the abyss surrounded me, the seaweed was wrapped about my head. [6] I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God. [7] When my soul fainted upon me [crushing me], I earnestly and seriously remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple. [8] Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness. [9] But as for me, I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation and deliverance belong to the Lord! [10] And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
