Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance

Now the LORD had prepared a great 

fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in

the belly of the fish three days and three

nights.

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his

God from the fish's belly.

And he said:

"I cried out to the LORD because of 

my affliction.

And He answered me.

"Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

And You heard my voice.

For You cast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the floods surrounded me;

All Your billows and Your waves

passed over me.

Then I said, ' I have been cast out of

Your sight;

Yet I will look again toward Your

holy temple.'

The waters encompassed me, even 

to my soul;

The deep closed around me;

Weeds were wrapped around my

head.

I went down to the moorings of the

mountains;

The earth with its bars closed

behind me forever;

Yet You have brought up my life

from the pit,

O LORD, my God.

"When my soul fainted within me,

I remembered the LORD;

And my prayer went up to You,

Into Your holy temple.

"Those who regard worthless idols

Forsake their own Mercy.

But I will sacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving;

I will pay what I have vowed.

Salvation is of the LORD."

So the LORD spoke to the fish, and it

vomited Jonah onto dry land.