Jonah
2 And Jonah prayed to his God Jehovah from the fish’s stomach, 2 and said
“I called out of my distress to Jehovah, and he answered me;
out of the heart of the realm of death I shouted; you heard my voice.
3 And you threw me in the ooze in ocean’s abyss, a river enclosing me;
all your surges and waves passed over me;
4 And I thought ‘I am banished from before your eyes,
how am I anymore to look to your holy temple?’
6* To the sockets of mountains I went down,
the earth had its bars over me forever;
And you brought up my life from dissolution,
Jehovah, my God.
7 When my soul failed me I remembered Jehovah,
and my prayer went in to him in his holy temple.
8* Those who attend to futile superstitions are leaving their help,
9 but I with voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you,
what I have vowed I will pay as salvation-offering to Jehovah.”
10 And Jehovah told the fish what to do, and it vomited Jonah out to the land.