2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

“I called to the Lord out of my distress,

    and he answered me;

out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

    and you heard my voice.

3 

You cast me into the deep,

    into the heart of the seas,

    and the flood surrounded me;

all your waves and your billows

    passed over me.

4 

Then I said, ‘I am driven away

    from your sight;

how shall I look again

    upon your holy temple?’

5 

The waters closed in over me;

    the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped around my head

6 

    at the roots of the mountains.

I went down to the land

    whose bars closed upon me forever;

yet you brought up my life from the Pit,

    O Lord my God.

7 

As my life was ebbing away,

    I remembered the Lord,

and my prayer came to you,

    into your holy temple.

8 

Those who worship vain idols

    forsake their true loyalty.

9 

But I with the voice of thanksgiving

    will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

    Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”

10 Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.