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Chapter 2

Then the Lord ordained that a large fish would swallow Jonah and he remained in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

Prayer of Deliverance[a]

Then from the belly of the fish Jonah offered this prayer to the Lord, his God:

In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and he answered me.
From the belly of the netherworld I cried out for help,
    and you heard my voice.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:2 The author inserts, here, an appeal whose images give a vivid description of every kind of distress (see Ps 69:1-2, 15).