31 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
31 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 2
|
||
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish.
|
||
2 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!
|
||
3 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.
|
||
4 Then I said, ‘O Lord, you have driven me from your presence.
|
||
Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’
|
||
5 “I sank beneath the waves,
|
||
and the waters closed over me.
|
||
Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
|
||
6 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!
|
||
7 As my life was slipping away,
|
||
I remembered the Lord.
|
||
And my earnest prayer went out to you
|
||
in your holy Temple.
|
||
8 Those who worship false gods
|
||
turn their backs on all God’s mercies.
|
||
9 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.”
|
||
10 Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach. |