1 A nd Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,

2 A nd 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.

and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3 W hen 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.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

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

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

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

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 T o 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.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

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

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

8 T hose observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

10 A nd Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.