Jonah - Chapter 2

Passage

Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish, And said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and you have heard my voice. And you have cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood has compassed me: all your billows, and your waves have passed over me. And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of your eyes: but yet I shall see your holy temple again. The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep has closed me round about, the sea has covered my head. I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and you will bring up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to you, to your holy temple. They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy. But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to you: I will pay whatever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord. And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.