# Jonah 2 (New King James Version)
Jonah's Prayer and God's Answer

##### Chapter 2
###### 1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly.  
###### 2 And he said:
"I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,  
And He answered me.
"Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,  
_And_ You heard my voice.  

###### 3 For You cast me into the deep,  
Into the heart of the seas,  
And the floods surrounded me;  
All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.  

###### 4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight;  
Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'  

###### 5 The waters surrounded me, _even_ to my soul;  
The deep closed around me;  
Weeds were wrapped around my head.  

###### 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains;  
The earth with its bars _closed_ behind me forever;  
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,  
O Lord, my God.

###### 7 "When my soul fainted within me,  
I remembered the Lord;  
And my prayer went _up_ to You,  
Into Your holy temple.

###### 8 "Those who regard worthless idols  
Forsake their own Mercy.  

###### 9 But I will sacrifice to You  
With the voice of thanksgiving;  
I will pay what I have vowed.  
Salvation _is_ of the Lord."

###### 10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry _land._