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# Chapter 2
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1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,
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2 saying,
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“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
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and he answered me;
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out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
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and you heard my voice.
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3 For you cast me into the deep,
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into the heart of the seas,
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and the flood surrounded me;
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all your waves and your billows
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passed over me.
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4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
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from your sight;
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yet I shall again look
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upon your holy temple.’
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5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
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the deep surrounded me;
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weeds were wrapped about my head
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6 at the roots of the mountains.
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I went down to the land
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whose bars closed upon me forever;
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yet you brought up my life from the pit,
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O Lord my God.
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7 When my life was fainting away,
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I remembered the Lord,
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and my prayer came to you,
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into your holy temple.
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8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
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forsake their hope of steadfast love.
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9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
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will sacrifice to you;
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what I have vowed I will pay.
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Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
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10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. |