Jonah 2

Jonah’s Prayer

1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish.

2 He said, “In my trouble I called out to the LORD, and He answered me. From deep in the grave I cried for help, and You heard my voice.

3 You threw me into the deep, into the middle of the seas, and the current wrapped around me. All Your waves and breakers passed over me.

4 I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight, but I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

5 The water closed in around me, deep waters surrounded me, seaweed wrapped around my head.

6 I sank down to the roots of the mountains. The earth locked me in forever, but You brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.

7 When my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

8 Those who hold on to worthless idols turn away from faithful love,

9 but I will sacrifice to You with a voice of thanksgiving. What I promised, I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”

10 Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto dry land.