¹Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. ²He said,

• “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
• He answered me.

• Out of the belly of Sheol *Sheol is the place of the dead. I cried.
• You heard my voice.

• ³For you threw me into the depths,
• in the heart of the seas.

• The flood was all around me.
• All your waves and your billows passed over me.

• ⁴I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
• yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• ⁵The waters surrounded me,
• even to the soul.

• The deep was around me.
• The weeds were wrapped around my head.

• ⁶I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
• The earth barred me in forever:
• yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

• ⁷“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
• My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

• ⁸Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• ⁹But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
• I will pay that which I have vowed.

• Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

¹⁰Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.