Jonah 2:2-6 ▼

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!