Jonah 2

1And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

1Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights.

2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

2And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.

3When Thou dost cast me <FI>into<Fi> the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

3And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

4And I--I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

4And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood hast compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.

5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

5And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again.

6To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars <FI>are<Fi> behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

6The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

7In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

7I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

8Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

8When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.

9And I--with a voice of thanksgiving--I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation <FI>is<Fi> of Jehovah.

9They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.

10And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

10But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.

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11And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.