Jonah

¹ Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, out of the belly of the fish,

² and said: I cried out of my distress, to the Lord and he answered me; out of the midst of Sheol I cried aloud, and you heard my voice.

³ For you cast me into the deep, into heart of the seas, and the great flood rolled about me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me.

⁴ Then I said, I am driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards your holy temple?

⁵ The waters surrounded me, the great deep engulfed me, the sea weeds were wrapped about my head.

⁶ I went down to the roots of the mountains; the prison of the earth closed over me forever. Yet you brought up my life from destruction, O Lord my God.

⁷ As my life slipped away, I remembered the Lord ; and my prayer reached you, in your holy temple.

⁸ Those who worship worthless idols abandon their own mercy,

⁹ but I will sacrifice to you with loud thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is the Lord ’s.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it threw up Jonah upon the dry land.