He prays from inside the fish

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Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

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He said,

“I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.

He answered me.

Out of the belly of Sheol* I cried.

You heard my voice.

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For you threw me into the depths,

in the heart of the seas.

The flood was all around me.

All your waves and your billows passed over me.

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I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;

yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

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The waters surrounded me,

even to the soul.

The deep was around me.

The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.

The earth barred me in forever;

yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.

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“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.

My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

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But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

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Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.