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1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish.
2 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.
3 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.
4 I said, ‘I have been driven from your sight, yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed around me up to my throat;
the deep surrounded me, and seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 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.
7 When my life was ebbing away within me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
8 Those who cling to empty falsehoods forsake the steadfast love that is theirs.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving.
What I have vowed I will fulfill.
Salvation belongs to the LORD.”
10 Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.