Jonah’s Prayer

1And Ionas prayed vnto the Lorde his God out of the fisshes belly.

2And saide: In affliction I cryed vnto the Lorde, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce.

3Thou haddest cast me downe into the deepe, into the middest of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes and waues passed ouer me.

4And I saide: I am cast away out of thy sight, yet wyll I loke againe toward thyne holy temple.

5The waters compassed me euen vnto the soule, the deapth closed me on euery side, and the weedes were wrapt about my head.

6I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines, the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption, O Lorde my God.

7When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde, and my prayer came in vnto thee into thy holy temple.

8They that holde vpon lying vanitie, forsake his mercie.

9But I wyll sacrifice vnto thee with the voyce of thankesgeuing, and wyll pay that that I haue vowed: for saluation is of the Lorde.

10And the Lorde spake vnto the fisshe, and it cast out Ionas vpon the drye lande.