1 T hen Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly,

And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

2 A nd said, I cried out of my distress to the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and You heard my voice.

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

3 F or You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your waves and Your billows passed over me.

When Thou dost cast me the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

4 T hen I said, I have been cast out of Your presence and Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

5 T he waters compassed me about, even to life; the abyss surrounded me, the seaweed was wrapped about my head.

Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God.

To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

7 W hen my soul fainted upon me, I earnestly and seriously remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

8 T hose who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own mercy and loving-kindness.

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

9 B ut as for me, I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation and deliverance belong to the Lord!

And I -- with a voice of thanksgiving -- I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation of Jehovah.

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

And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.