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# 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.