Jonah 2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Jonah’s Prayer

¹ Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:

² I called to the Lord in my distress, and he answered me. I cried out for help from deep inside   Sheol; you heard my voice.

³ When you threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, the current  overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.

⁴ And I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look  once more towards your holy temple.’

⁵ The water engulfed me up to the neck;  , the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped round my head.

⁶ I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me for ever! Then you raised my life  from the Pit, Lord  my God!

⁷ As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

⁸ Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,

⁹ but as for me, I will sacrifice  to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfil  what I have vowed. Salvation  belongs to the  Lord.

¹⁰ Then the Lord commanded the fish,  and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.