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me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_2">From deep in the world of the dead</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_2">I cried for help, and you heard me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.3" class="v32_2_3">3</span>You threw me down into the depths,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_3">to the very bottom of the sea,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_3">where the waters were all around me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_3">and all your mighty waves rolled over me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.4" class="v32_2_4">4</span>I thought I had been banished from your presence</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_4">and would never see your holy Temple again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.5" class="v32_2_5">5</span>The water came over me and choked me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_5">the sea covered me completely,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_5">and seaweed wrapped around my head.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.6" class="v32_2_6">6</span>I went down to the very roots of the mountains,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_6">into the land whose gates lock shut forever.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jonah.2.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_6">But you, O <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_6">brought me back from the depths alive.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.7" class="v32_2_7">7</span>When I felt my life slipping away,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_7">then, O <span class="nd">Lord</span>, I prayed to you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_7">and in your holy Temple you heard me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.8" class="v32_2_8">8</span>Those who worship worthless idols</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_8">have abandoned their loyalty to you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.9" class="v32_2_9">9</span>But I will sing praises to you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_9">I will offer you a sacrifice</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v32_2_9">and do what I have promised.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v32_2_9">Salvation comes from the <span class="nd">Lord</span>!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v32_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jonah.2.10" class="v32_2_10">10</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.6: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">the land whose gates lock shut forever: </char><char 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