Jonah 2:2-6 ▼

2 and he said, “I called out of my distress to Yahweh, And He answered me. I cried for help from the belly of Sheol; You heard my voice.

3 For You had cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and waves passed over me.

4 So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

5 Water encompassed me to my very soul. The great deep surrounded me, Weeds were wrapped around my head.

6 I went down to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed behind me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.