Jonah 1:17-2:10
New King James Version
Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance
17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And (A)Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah’s Prayer and God’s Answer
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. 2 And he said:
“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
3 (D)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
(E)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
4 (F)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again (G)toward Your holy temple.’
5 The (H)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the [a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my (I)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.
7 “When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
(J)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.
8 “Those who regard (K)worthless idols
Forsake their own [b]Mercy.
9 But I will (L)sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have (M)vowed.
(N)Salvation is of the (O)Lord.”
10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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