² I called to the Lord in my distress,

and He answered me.

I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;

You heard my voice.

³ You threw me into the depths,

into the heart of the seas,

and the current^[b] overcame me.

All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

⁴ But I said: I have been banished

from Your sight,

yet I will look once more^[c]

toward Your holy temple.

⁵ The waters engulfed me up to the neck;^[d]

the watery depths overcame me;

seaweed was wrapped around my head.

⁶ I sank to the foundations of the mountains;

the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!

But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

⁷ As my life was fading away,

I remembered Yahweh.

My prayer came to You,

to Your holy temple.

⁸ Those who cling to worthless idols

forsake faithful love,

⁹ but as for me, I will sacrifice to You

with a voice of thanksgiving.

I will fulfill what I have vowed.

Salvation^[e] is from the Lord!

¹⁰ Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Footnotes

1. Jonah 2:1 Lit from the belly of
2. Jonah 2:3 Lit river
3. Jonah 2:4 LXX reads said: Indeed, will I look . . . ?
4. Jonah 2:5 Or me, threatening my life
5. Jonah 2:9 Or Deliverance