Jonah 2:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I was almost drowned by the swirling waters that surrounded me. Seaweed had wrapped around my head.

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and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm,

You do what is right, and I ask you to guide me. Make your teaching clear because of my enemies.

Water covered my head— I thought I was gone.

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by soldiers, you will know that it will soon be destroyed.