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Jonah 2
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
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.
1Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?
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.
5The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
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.
9But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.