1. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish.
2. He said: “I called 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. You cast me into the deep,into the heart of the seas,and the flood surrounded me.All Your billows and Your wavespassed over me.
4. Then I said, ‘I am cast awayfrom Your sight;yet I will look againto Your holy temple.’
5. The waters encompassed me; even to my soulthe deep surrounded me;weeds were wrapped around my head.
6. I went down to the foundations of the mountains;the earth with its bars was around me forever;yet You have brought up my life from the pit,O Lord my God.
7. “When my life was ebbing away,I remembered the Lord;and my prayer came to You,into Your holy temple.
8. “Those who follow vain idolsforsake their true loyalty.
9. But I will sacrifice to Youwith the voice of thanksgiving;I will pay what I have vowed.Salvation is of the Lord!”
10. Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon dry land.