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Jonah 2

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying,
‘I called to the Lord out of my distress,  and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,  and you heard my voice.
You cast me into the deep,  into the heart of the seas,
   and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows passed over me.
Then I said, “I am driven away from your sight;
how shall I look again upon your holy temple?”
The waters closed in over me;
   the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head
at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.
As my life was ebbing away,   I remembered the Lord;
and my prayer came to you,   into your holy temple.
Those who worship vain idols  forsake their true loyalty.
But I with the voice of thanksgiving  will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord!’
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.