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Jonah's Prayer

^1 (F1)Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God ^(C1)from the stomach of the fish,² and he said,

"I ^(C1)called out of my distress to Yahweh,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the belly of ^(C2)Sheol;
You heard my voice.

³ "For You had ^(C1)cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current surrounded me.
All Your ^(C2)breakers and waves passed over me.

⁴ "So I said, 'I have been ^(C1)driven away from ^(F1)Your sight.
Nevertheless I will look again ^(C2)toward Your holy temple.'

⁵ "^(C1)Water encompassed me to my very soul.
The great ^(C2)deep surrounded me,
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ "I ^(C1)went down to the ^(F1)base of the mountains.
The earth with its ^(C2)bars closed behind me forever,
But You have ^(C3)brought up my life from ^(F2)the pit, O Yahweh my God.

⁷ "While my soul was ^(C1)fainting within me,
I ^(C2)remembered Yahweh,
And my ^(C3)prayer came to You,
To ^(C4)Your holy temple.

⁸ "Those who ^(C1)regard worthless idols
Forsake their lovingkindness,

⁹ But as for me, I will ^(C1)sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving.
That which I have vowed I will ^(C2)pay.
^(C3)Salvation belongs to Yahweh."

¹⁰ Then Yahweh spoke to the ^(C1)fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.