1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,
2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.
3 For you cast me into the deep,into the heart of the seas,and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billowspassed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven awayfrom your sight; yet I shall again lookupon your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;the deep surrounded me;weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.I went down to the landwhose bars closed upon me forever;yet you brought up my life from the pit,O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you,into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgivingwill sacrifice to you;what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.