Jonah's Prayer from the Fish's Belly and Deliverance
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Chapter 2
1And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.2And Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish.3And he said, "I called out from my distress to the LORD, and he answered me from the belly of Sheol; you heard my cry, my voice."4You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All your breakers and waves passed over me.5And I said, "I have been driven away from before your eyes; yet I will continue to gaze toward your holy temple."6Waters surrounded me up to my soul; the deep encircled me; weeds bound to my head.7I descended to the cuts of the mountains; the earth, her bars, forever for me, and she brought up my life from the pit—the LORD my God.8In my soul's being wrapped around me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy Temple.9Those who cling to worthless idols abandon their loyal love.10And I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you—what I have vowed I will fulfill. Salvation belongs to the LORD.