Jonah 2
1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, out of the belly of the fish,
And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
2 and said: I cried out of my distress, to the Lord and he answered me; out of the midst of Sheol I cried aloud, and you heard my voice. (Sheol h7585)
And he says: “I called, because of my distress, to YHWH, And He answers me, From the belly of Sheol I have cried, You have heard my voice. (Sheol h7585)
3 For you cast me into the deep, into heart of the seas, and the great flood rolled about me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me.
When You cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood surrounds me, All Your breakers and Your billows have passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards your holy temple?
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
5 The waters surrounded me, the great deep engulfed me, the sea weeds were wrapped about my head.
Waters have surrounded me to the soul, The deep surrounds me, The weed is bound to my head.
6 I went down to the roots of the mountains; the prison of the earth closed over me forever. Yet you brought up my life from destruction, O Lord my God.
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me for all time. And You bring my life up from the pit, O YHWH my God.
7 As my life slipped away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer reached you, in your holy temple.
In the feebleness of my soul within me, I have remembered YHWH, And my prayer comes to You, Into Your holy temple.
8 Those who worship worthless idols abandon their own mercy,
Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 but I will sacrifice to you with loud thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is the Lord’s.
And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to You, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of YHWH.”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it threw up Jonah upon the dry land.
And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
