< Jonas Propheta 2 >

1 Et oravit Ionas ad Dominum Deum suum de ventre piscis.
Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, out of the belly of the fish,
2 Et dixit: Clamavi de tribulatione mea ad Dominum, et exaudivit me: de ventre inferi clamavi, et exaudisti vocem meam. (Sheol h7585)
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)
3 Et proiecisti me in profundum in corde maris, et flumen circumdedit me: omnes gurgites tui, et fluctus tui super me transierunt.
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.
4 Et ego dixi: Abiectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum: verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum.
Then I said, I am driven out, away from your sight; How will I ever again look towards your holy temple?
5 Circumdederunt me aquæ usque ad animam: abyssus vallavit me, pelagus operuit caput meum.
The waters surrounded me, the great deep engulfed me, the sea weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 Ad extrema montium descendi: terræ vectes concluserunt me in æternum: et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam, Domine Deus meus.
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.
7 Cum angustiaretur in me anima mea, Domini recordatus sum: ut veniat ad te oratio mea ad templum sanctum tuum.
As my life slipped away, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer reached you, in your holy temple.
8 Qui custodiunt vanitates frustra, misericordiam suam derelinquunt.
Those who worship worthless idols abandon their own mercy,
9 Ego autem in voce laudis immolabo tibi: quæcumque vovi, reddam pro salute Domino.
but I will sacrifice to you with loud thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is the Lord’s.
10 Et dixit Dominus pisci: et evomuit Ionam in aridam.
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it threw up Jonah upon the dry land.

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