Jonah 2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hebrew Names version (HNV)
Jonah 2

¹ Then Yonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish's belly.

² He said, *I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of She'ol I cried. You heard my voice.

³ For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

⁴ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

⁵ The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, LORD my God.

⁷ *When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.*

¹⁰ The LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Yonah on the dry land.