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<span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> out of my distress,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he answered me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">out of the belly of Sheol I cried,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you heard my voice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>You cast me into the deep,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">into the heart of the seas,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the flood surrounded me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">all your waves and your billows</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">passed over me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Then I said, ‘I am driven away</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from your sight;</span></span><br /><span class="text">how<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26825a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> shall I look again</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">upon your holy temple?’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The waters closed in over me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the deep surrounded me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">weeds were wrapped around my head</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>at the roots of the mountains.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I went down to the land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whose bars closed upon me forever;</span></span><br /><span class="text">yet you brought up my life from the Pit,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>As my life was ebbing away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I remembered the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and my prayer came to you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">into your holy temple.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Those who worship vain idols</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">forsake their true loyalty.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But I with the voice of thanksgiving</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">will sacrifice to you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">what I have vowed I will pay.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Deliverance belongs to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>!”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jonah 2:4">Jonah 2:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Theodotion: Heb <i>surely</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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