Jonah 2
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Jonah

Jonah’s Prayer

1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.+ 2He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol 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 towards 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 you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.+ 7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.+ 8Those who regard vain idols 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 the LORD.”+ 10Then The LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.+
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  1. a 2:2 2:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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