Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

1Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly, 2and said,

I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me;

Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;

And the floods compassed me about:

All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight;

Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul:

The depth closed me round about,

The weeds were wrapt about my head.

6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

The earth with her bars was about me for ever:

Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord:

And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;

I will pay that that I have vowed.

Salvation is of the Lord.

10And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.