A Prayer from the Depths

2Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish.

3And he said, “I called to Yahweh out of my distress, and he answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried out; you heard my voice.”

4You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me.

5And I said, ‘I have been driven out from before your eyes; yet I will again look toward your holy temple.’

6Waters closed in around me to my very life; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

7I went down to the roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever, but you brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.