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Jonah 2
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
1And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah hisGod out of the fish's belly;
2In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
2and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
3For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
4And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
5The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah myGod.
7When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.
8The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.