Jonah 1:17-2:10 - ESV Online

JONAH 1:17-2:10

A Great Fish Swallows Jonah

17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah’s Prayer

2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

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 flood surrounded me;

all your waves and your billows

passed over me. 4

Then I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

yet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’ 5

The waters closed in over me to take my life;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head 6

at the roots of the mountains.

I went down to the land

whose bars closed upon me forever;

yet you brought up my life from the pit,

O Lord my God. 7

When my life was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

and my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple. 8

Those who pay regard to vain idols

forsake their hope of steadfast love. 9

But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

Salvation belongs to the Lord!” 10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

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