Jonah 2
1 The LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
2 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish.
3 And he said, “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my voice.
4 You hurled me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me; all your breakers and your waves swept over me.
5 And I said, ‘I have been driven away from before your eyes; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
6 The waters closed around me to my very life; the deep surrounded me; seaweed wrapped around my head.
7 I went down to the roots of the mountains; the earth barred me in forever. But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD my God.
8 As my life was fading within me, I remembered the LORD; my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
9 Those who cling to worthless idols forsake their faithful love.
10 But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will offer a sacrifice to you; what I vowed, I will fulfill. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”
11 Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
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