Jonah 2:2-10 ▼

2 He said: |I called out to the LORD from the midst of affliction directed at me, and he answered me. From the depths of death I cried out for help; and you heard my cry.

3 You cast me into the deep— into the heart of the sea. Flood waters engulfed me. All your breakers and your waves swirled over me.

4 So I told myself, 'I have been driven away from you. How will I again gaze on your holy Temple?'

5 Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head.

6 I sank to the roots of the mountains; the earth's prison bars closed around me forever. Yet you resurrect the dead from the Pit, LORD my God!

7 |As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.

8 Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.

9 But as for me, with a voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance is the LORD's!|

10 Then the LORD spoke to the sea creature, and it spewed Jonah onto the dry land.