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Jonah 2 - Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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Jonah’s Prayer

2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside[a] the fish:(A)

2 I called to the Lord in my distress,(B)
and He answered me.
I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;(C)
You heard my voice.(D)
3 You threw me into the depths,(E)
into the heart of the seas,(F)
and the current[b] overcame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.(G)
4 But I said: I have been banished(H)
from Your sight,(I)
yet I will look once more[c]
toward Your holy temple.(J)
5 The waters engulfed me up to the neck;[d](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 with its prison bars closed behind me forever!(N)
But You raised my life(O) from the Pit, Lord my God!(P)
7 As my life was fading away,(Q)
I remembered Yahweh.(R)
My prayer came to You,(S)
to Your holy temple.(T)
8 Those who cling to worthless idols(U)
forsake 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[e] is from the Lord!(Z)

10 Then the Lord commanded the fish,(AA) and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:1 Lit from the belly of
  2. Jonah 2:3 Lit river
  3. Jonah 2:4 LXX reads said: Indeed, will I look . . . ?
  4. Jonah 2:5 Or me, threatening my life
  5. Jonah 2:9 Or Deliverance

Cross references

  1. 2:1 : Jb 13:15; Ps 130:1-2; Lm 3:53-56
  2. 2:2 : 1Sm 30:6; Ps 18:4-6; 22:24; 120:1
  3. 2:2 : Ps 18:5-6; 86:13; 88:1-7; Is 28:15; 38:18
  4. 2:2 : Ps 34:7
  5. 2:3 : Ps 69:1-2, 14-15; Lm 3:54
  6. 2:3 : Neh 9:11
  7. 2:3 : Ps 42:7
  8. 2:4 : Lv 21:7
  9. 2:4 : Ps 31:22-23; Jr 7:15
  10. 2:4 : 1Kg 8:38; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; 138:2
  11. 2:5 : Ps 69:1-2; 105:18; Pr 23:2; Lm 3:54
  12. 2:5 : Ps 18:4-5
  13. 2:6 : Ps 116:3
  14. 2:6 : Jb 38:10; Ps 9:13; Is 38:10; Mt 16:18
  15. 2:6 : Jb 33:28; Ps 16:10; 30:3; Is 38:17
  16. 2:6 : Ps 30:3; 86:13
  17. 2:7 : Ps 142:3
  18. 2:7 : 2Sm 14:11; Ps 77:10-11; 143:5
  19. 2:7 : 2Ch 30:27; Ps 18:6
  20. 2:7 : Ps 11:4; 65:4; 88:2; Mc 1:2; Hab 2:20
  21. 2:8 : 2Kg 17:15; Ps 31:6; Jr 16:18
  22. 2:8 : Ps 31:6
  23. 2:9 : Ps 50:14, 23; Jr 33:11; Hs 14:2
  24. 2:9 : Ps 26:7
  25. 2:9 : Jb 22:27; Ps 22:25; 116:14, 18; Ec 5:4-5
  26. 2:9 : Ps 3:8; Is 12:2; 45:17; Rv 7:10
  27. 2:10 : Jnh 1:17

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