Jonah 2 DBY
Summary: From inside the fish, Jonah prays a psalm-like thanksgiving to the LORD, describing his descent into the depths, seaweed wrapped around his head, and his sense of being cut off from God's sight, yet crying out from Sheol's belly and being heard. He remembers the LORD in the temple, contrasts himself with those who cling to worthless idols and forfeit grace, and vows to sacrifice with thanksgiving and pay what he has vowed, declaring "salvation belongs to the LORD" (v. 9). At the LORD's command, the fish vomits Jonah out onto dry land.
1And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah hisGod out of the fish's belly;
2and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah myGod.
7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
10And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
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