1 Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish:
2 I called to the LORD in my distress, and he answered me. I cried out for help from deep inside Sheol; you heard my voice.
3 When you threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
4 And I said, “I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look once more toward your holy temple.”
5 The water engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, LORD my God!
7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
8 Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,
9 but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.
10 Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.