1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish:
2 I called to the Lord in my distress, and He answered me.I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol; You heard my voice.
3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me.All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.
4 But I said: I have been banished from Your sight, yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.
5 The waters engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me;seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!