Jonah 2:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ I thought I had been banished from your presence
    and would never see your holy Temple again.
⁵ The water came over me and choked me;
    the sea covered me completely,
    and seaweed wrapped around my head.
⁶ I went down to the very roots of the mountains,
    into the land whose gates lock shut forever.^[a]
But you, O Lord my God,
    brought me back from the depths alive.