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title="Jonah 1">◄</a> Jonah 2 <a href="../jonah/3.htm" title="Jonah 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jonah/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jonah’s Prayer</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jonah prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God from the belly of the fish, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>saying,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“I called out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, out of my distress,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he answered me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">out of the belly of Sheol I cried,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you heard my voice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you cast me into the deep,</span><br /><span class="indent">into the heart of the seas,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the flood surrounded me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all your waves and your billows</span><br /><span class="indent">passed over me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then I said, ‘I am driven away</span><br /><span class="indent">from your sight;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet I shall again look</span><br /><span class="indent">upon your holy temple.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The waters closed in over me to take my life;</span><br /><span class="indent">the deep surrounded me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">weeds were wrapped about my head</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="indent">at the roots of the mountains.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I went down to the land</span><br /><span class="indent">whose bars closed upon me forever;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet you brought up my life from the pit,</span><br /><span class="indent">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When my life was fainting away,</span><br /><span class="indent">I remembered the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and my prayer came to you,</span><br /><span class="indent">into your holy temple.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Those who pay regard to vain idols</span><br /><span class="indent">forsake their hope of steadfast love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I with the voice of thanksgiving</span><br /><span class="indent">will sacrifice to you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">what I have vowed I will pay.</span><br /><span class="indent">Salvation belongs to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>!”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br 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