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Then Jonah prayed to God his God from the fish's stomach.
He said, “I called out to God about my distress and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help! You heard my voice.
You had thrown me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the currents surrounded me; all your waves and billows passed over me.
I said, 'I am driven out from before your eyes; yet I will again look toward your holy temple.'
The waters closed around me up to my neck; the deep was all around me; seaweed wrapped around my head.
I went down to the bases of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed upon me forever. Yet you brought up my life from the pit, God, my God!
When my soul fainted within me, I called God to mind; then my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
They give attention to useless gods while they forsake loving faithfulness.
But as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation comes from God!”
Then God spoke to the fish, and it vomited up Jonah upon the dry land.
unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engULB). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio 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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