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Jonah's Prayer

 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, ² saying,

“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
³ For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
⁴ Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
⁵ The waters closed in over me 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 forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
⁷ When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
⁸ Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
⁹ But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

Cross references:

1. Jonah 2:2 : Ps. 3:4; 120:1; Lam. 3:55
2. Jonah 2:2 : Ps. 118:5
3. Jonah 2:2 : Lam. 3:56
4. Jonah 2:3 : Ps. 88:6, 7
5. Jonah 2:3 : Ps. 42:7
6. Jonah 2:4 : Ps. 31:22
7. Jonah 2:4 : [1 Kgs. 8:35, 38]
8. Jonah 2:5 : [Lam. 3:54]
9. Jonah 2:5 : Ps. 69:1
10. Jonah 2:7 : [2 Chr. 30:27]
11. Jonah 2:8 : Ps. 31:6; [2 Kgs. 17:15; Jer. 2:5]
12. Jonah 2:8 : [Jer. 2:13]
13. Jonah 2:9 : Ps. 50:14; [Hos. 14:2; Heb. 13:15]
14. Jonah 2:9 : Ps. 3:8