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¶ Then Jonah prayed to YHVH, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
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He said,
“I called because of my affliction to YHVH.
He answered me.
Out of the belly of Sheola I cried.
You heard my voice.
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For you threw me into the depths,
in the heart of the seas.
The flood was all around me.
All your waves and your billows passed over me.
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I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
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The waters surrounded me,
even to the soul.
The deep was around me.
The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
The earth barred me in forever;
yet you have brought my life up from the pit, YHVH my God.
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“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered YHVH.
My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
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But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to YHVH.”
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¶ Then YHVH spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.