In the depths

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.

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.