Jonah’s Prayer
2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:(A)
2 I called to the Lord in my distress,(B)
and he answered me.
I cried out for help from deep inside Sheol;(C)
you heard my voice.(D)
3 When you threw me into the depths,(E)
into the heart of the seas,(F)
the current overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(G)
4 And I said, “I have been banished(H)
from your sight,(I)
yet I will look once more
toward your holy temple.”(J)
5 The water engulfed me up to the neck;(K)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(L)
6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains,(M)
the earth’s gates shut behind me forever!(N)
Then you raised my life(O) from the Pit, Lord my God!(P)
7 As my life was fading away,(Q)
I remembered the Lord,(R)
and my prayer came to you,(S)
to your holy temple.(T)
8 Those who cherish worthless idols(U)
abandon their faithful love,(V)
9 but as for me, I will sacrifice(W) to you
with a voice of thanksgiving.(X)
I will fulfill(Y) what I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to the Lord.(Z)
10 Then the Lord commanded the fish,(AA) and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Footnotes
- 2:2
- 2:3
- 2:4
- 2:5
- 2:9
Cross references
- 2:1 : Jb 13:15; Ps 130:1–2; Lm 3:53–56
- 2:2 : 1Sm 30:6; Ps 18:4–6; 22:24; 120:1
- 2:2 : Ps 18:5–6; 86:13; 88:1–7; Is 28:15; 38:18
- 2:2 : Ps 34:7
- 2:3 : Ps 69:1–2,14–15; Lm 3:54
- 2:3 : Neh 9:11
- 2:3 : Ps 42:7
- 2:4 : Lv 21:7
- 2:4 : Ps 31:22–23; Jr 7:15
- 2:4 : 1Kg 8:38; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; 138:2
- 2:5 : Ps 69:1–2; 105:18; Pr 23:2; Lm 3:54
- 2:5 : Ps 18:4–5
- 2:6 : Ps 116:3
- 2:6 : Jb 38:10; Ps 9:13; Is 38:10; Mt 16:18
- 2:6 : Jb 33:28; Ps 16:10; 30:3; Is 38:17
- 2:6 : Ps 30:3; 86:13
- 2:7 : Ps 142:3
- 2:7 : 2Sm 14:11; Ps 77:10–11; 143:5
- 2:7 : 2Ch 30:27; Ps 18:6
- 2:7 : Ps 11:4; 65:4; 88:2; Mc 1:2; Hab 2:20
- 2:8 : 2Kg 17:15; Ps 31:6; Jr 16:18
- 2:8 : Ps 31:6
- 2:9 : Ps 50:14,23; Jr 33:11; Hs 14:2
- 2:9 : Ps 26:7
- 2:9 : Jb 22:27; Ps 22:25; 116:14,18; Ec 5:4–5
- 2:9 : Ps 3:8; Is 12:2; 45:17; Rv 7:10
- 2:10 : Jnh 1:17
