# Jonah 2 [[Jonah 1|←]] • [[Jonah 3|→]] --- ### 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, ### 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, thou heardest my voice. ### 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. ### 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. ### 5 The waters compassed me about, to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. ### 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. ### 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. ### 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. ### 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that I have vowed. Salvation of the Lord. ### 10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry