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2Jonah

1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish,

Jonah's prayer. Jon.2.1-10
2 saying,
"I called to Yahweh, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
 
3 For you casted me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood was round about me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.

 
4 Then I said, 'I am cast out
from your presence;
how shall I again look
upon your holy temple?
 
5 The waters closed over me,
the deep was round me;
weeds are wrapped about my head
 
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me for ever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Yahweh my God.
 
7 When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered Yahweh;
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
 
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.
 
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to Yahweh!"

 
10 And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

 
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