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3 “For You threw me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current flowed around me. All Your breakers and waves passed over me. 4 “So I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ 5 “Water encompassed me to the point of death. The deep flowed around me, Seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 “I descended to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, LORD my God. 7 “While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple. 8 “Those who are followers of worthless idols Abandon their faithfulness, 9 But I will sacrifice to You With a voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the LORD.” 10 Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. Jonah 2:3-10, New American Standard Bible. Copyright © 2020 by The Lockman Foundation.
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