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Gloryian · © Guini Productions LLC
And Jonah prays to his God YHWH from the bowels of the fish.
And he says: “I called, because of my distress, to YHWH, || And He answers me, || From the belly of Sheol I have cried, || You have heard my voice.
When You cast me [into] the deep, || Into the heart of the seas, || Then the flood surrounds me, || All Your breakers and Your billows have passed over me.
And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes || (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)
Waters have surrounded me to the soul, || The deep surrounds me, || The weed is bound to my head.
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, || The earth, her bars [are] behind me for all time. And You bring my life up from the pit, O YHWH my God.
In the feebleness of my soul within me, || I have remembered YHWH, || And my prayer comes to You, || Into Your holy temple.
Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
And I—with a voice of thanksgiving—I sacrifice to You, || That which I have vowed I complete, || Salvation [is] of YHWH.”
And YHWH speaks to the fish, and it vomits Jonah out on the dry land.
English LSV. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (englsv). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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