Jonah 2 - Tree of Life Version

¹ Now Adonai prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah’s Prayer of Distress

² Then Jonah prayed to Adonai his God from the belly of the fish,

³ saying: “From my distress I cried to Adonai and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help and you heard my voice.

⁴ For you hurled me from the deep into the heart of the seas, and currents swirled around me. All your waves and your breakers swept over me.”

⁵ And I said, “I have been banished from before your eyes. Yet I will continue to look toward your holy Temple.”

⁶ Waters surrounded me up to my soul. The deep sea engulfed me— reeds clung to my head.

⁷ To the bottoms of the mountains I went down. The earth with her bars was around me, forever! Yet You brought my life up from the Pit, Adonai my God.

⁸ As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.

⁹ Those who watch worthless empty things forsake their mercy.

¹⁰ But I, with a voice of thanks will sacrifice to you. What I vowed, I will pay. Salvation is from Adonai.”

¹¹ Then Adonai spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.