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Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024

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Jonah Chapter 2

1And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the inner parts of the fish. 2And he said,

“I called on account of my predicament to the Lord,

And he answered me.

I cried out from the belly of the underworld,

And you heard my voice.

3And you cast me into the deep,

In the heart of the seas,

And the tide surrounded me.

All your breakers and your waves passed over me.

4And I said,

‘I have been driven out of your sight,

But I will look again at your holy temple.’

5Water has surrounded me,

Threatening my life.

The deep has encompassed me;

Sea-weed is bound around my head.

6I descended to the roots of the mountains;

The earth with its bars were closing in after me for age-long time,

But you rescued my life from the pit,

O Lord my God.

7When my life was draining away from me,

I remembered the Lord,

And my prayer came to you

– To your holy temple.

8Those who pay respect to vain idols

Abandon themselves to their tender mercies,

9But I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving;

That which I vowed,

I will fulfil,

For salvation is of the Lord.”

10Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it ejected Jonah onto the dry land.
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