1.2 KiB
1.2 KiB
Jonah's Prayer
Chapter 2
- Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish.
- He said, "I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble,
and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and LORD, you heard me!
- You threw me into the ocean depths,
and I sank down to the heart of the sea.
The mighty waters engulfed me;
I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
- Then I said, 'O LORD, you have driven me from your presence.
Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.'
- "I sank beneath the waves,
and the waters closed over me.
Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
- I sank down to the very roots of the mountains.
I was imprisoned in the earth,
whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O LORD my God,
snatched me from the jaws of death!
- As my life was slipping away, I remembered the LORD.
And my earnest prayer went out to you
in your holy Temple.
- Those who worship false gods
turn their backs on all God's mercies.
- But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise,
and I will fulfill all my vows. For my salvation comes from the LORD alone."
- Then the LORD ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.