- 1Then Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
- 2He said, “I called because of my affliction to the Lord. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- 3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
- 4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
- 5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
- 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, the Lord my God.
- 7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
- 8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- 9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord.”
- 10The Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.