the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Jonah 2
Jonah's Prayer
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
(a)"I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
(b)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
(c)and you heard my voice.
3 (d)For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
(e)all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 (f)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
(g)yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.'
5 (h)The waters closed in over me (i)to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
(j)and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 (k)Those who pay regard to vain idols
(l)forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 (m)But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
(n)Salvation belongs to the Lord!"
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
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