Jonah's Prayer
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
(C)and you heard my voice.
3 (D)For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
(E)all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 (F)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
(G)yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5 (H)The waters closed in over me (I)to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me for ever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
(J)and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 (K)Those who pay regard to vain idols
(L)forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 (M)But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
(N)Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Cross references
- Jonah 2:2 : Ps. 3:4; 120:1; Lam. 3:55
- Jonah 2:2 : Ps. 118:5
- Jonah 2:2 : Lam. 3:56
- Jonah 2:3 : Ps. 88:6, 7
- Jonah 2:3 : Ps. 42:7
- Jonah 2:4 : Ps. 31:22
- Jonah 2:4 : [1 Kgs. 8:35, 38]
- Jonah 2:5 : [Lam. 3:54]
- Jonah 2:5 : Ps. 69:1
- Jonah 2:7 : [2 Chr. 30:27]
- Jonah 2:8 : Ps. 31:6; [2 Kgs. 17:15; Jer. 2:5]
- Jonah 2:8 : [Jer. 2:13]
- Jonah 2:9 : Ps. 50:14; [Hos. 14:2; Heb. 13:15]
- Jonah 2:9 : Ps. 3:8
