1 Jonah’s Prayer Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:2 I called to the Lord in my distress, and he answered me. I cried out for help from deep inside Lit from the stomach of Sheol; you heard my voice.3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current Lit river overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.4 But I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more LXX reads said, “Indeed, will I look . . . ? toward your holy temple.5 The water engulfed me up to the neck; Or me, threatening my life the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord , and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,9 but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation Or Deliverance belongs to the Lord .”10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.