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Jonah’s Prayer

      1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish, 2 and he said,
         “I called out of my distress to the LORD,
         And He answered me.
         I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
         You heard my voice.
3 “For You had cast me into the deep,
         Into the heart of the seas,
         And the current engulfed me.
         All Your breakers and billows passed over me.
4 “So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight.
         Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
5 “Water encompassed me to the point of death.
         The great deep engulfed me,
         Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 “I descended to the roots of the mountains.
         The earth with its bars was around me forever,
         But You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
7 “While I was fainting away,
         I remembered the LORD,
         And my prayer came to You,
         Into Your holy temple.
8 “Those who regard vain idols
         Forsake their faithfulness,
9 But I will sacrifice to You
         With the voice of thanksgiving.
         That which I have vowed I will pay.
         Salvation is from the LORD.”
      10 Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.

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