Jonah 2

Complete Jewish Bible

2 ^(1:17)Adonai prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. ²⁽¹⁾From the belly of the fish Yonah prayed to Adonai his God; ³⁽²⁾he said,

“Out of my distress I called to Adonai,
and he answered me;
from the belly of Sh’ol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
⁴⁽³⁾For you threw me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas;
and the flood enveloped me;
all your surging waves passed over me.
⁵⁽⁴⁾I thought, ‘I have been banished from your sight.’
But I will again look at your holy temple.
⁶⁽⁵⁾The water surrounded me, threatened my life;
the deep closed over me, seaweed twined around my head.
⁷⁽⁶⁾I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains,
to a land whose bars would close me in forever;
but you brought me up alive from the pit,
Adonai, my God!
⁸⁽⁷⁾As my life was ebbing away,
I remembered Adonai;
and my prayer came in to you,
into your holy temple.

⁹⁽⁸⁾“Those who worship vain idols
give up their source of mercy;
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾but I, speaking my thanks aloud,
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed, I will pay.
Salvation comes from Adonai!”

¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾Then Adonai spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah out onto dry land.