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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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jonah/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span> his God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He said:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“In my distress I called to the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">and he answered me.</p><p class="line1">From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,</p><p class="line2">and you listened to my cry.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You hurled me into the depths,</p><p class="line2">into the very heart of the seas,</p><p class="line2">and the currents swirled about me;</p><p class="line1">all your waves and breakers</p><p class="line2">swept over me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I said, ‘I have been banished</p><p class="line2">from your sight;</p><p class="line1">yet I will look again</p><p class="line2">toward your holy temple.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The engulfing waters threatened me, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or waters were at my throat">a</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line2">the deep surrounded me;</p><p class="line2">seaweed was wrapped around my head.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>To the roots of the mountains I sank down;</p><p class="line2">the earth beneath barred me in forever.</p><p class="line1">But you, <span class="name">Lord</span> my God,</p><p class="line2">brought my life up from the pit.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“When my life was ebbing away,</p><p class="line2">I remembered you, <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line1">and my prayer rose to you,</p><p class="line2">to your holy temple.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Those who cling to worthless idols</p><p class="line2">turn away from God’s love for them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But I, with shouts of grateful praise,</p><p class="line2">will sacrifice to you.</p><p class="line1">What I have vowed I will make good.</p><p class="line2">I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the <span class="name">Lord</span>.’ ”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the <span class="name">Lord</span> commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>waters were at my throat</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 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