﻿Jonah.
Chapter 2.
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish. 
He said, “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and you heard my voice. 
You cast me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All your breakers and waves passed over me. 
I said, ‘I have been driven from your sight, yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ 
The waters closed around me up to my throat; the deep surrounded me, and seaweed was wrapped around my head. 
I went down to the roots of the mountains; the earth’s bars closed over me forever. Yet you brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God. 
When my life was ebbing away within me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple. 
Those who cling to empty falsehoods forsake the steadfast love that is theirs. 
But I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. What I have vowed I will fulfill. Salvation belongs to the LORD.” 
Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land. 
