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Jonah’s Prayer

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

2saying,

2:2 Ps. 3:4; 120:1; Lam. 3:55“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

and he answered me;

2:2 Ps. 118:5out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

2:2 Lam. 3:56and you heard my voice.

32:3 Ps. 88:6, 7For you cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

2:3 Ps. 42:7all your breakers and your waves

passed over me.

42:4 Ps. 31:22Then I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

2:4 [1 Kgs. 8:35, 38]yet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’

52:5 [Lam. 3:54] The waters closed in over me 2:5 Ps. 69:1to take my life;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head.

6To 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.

7When my life was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

2:7 [2 Chr. 30:27]and my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple.

82:8 Ps. 31:6; [2 Kgs. 17:15; Jer. 2:5] Those who pay regard to vain idols

2:8 [Jer. 2:13]forsake their hope of steadfast love.

92:9 Ps. 50:14; [Hos. 14:2; Heb. 13:15] But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

2:9 Ps. 3:8Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

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

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