Jonah 1:17-2:10

English Standard Version

A Great Fish Swallows Jonah

17 [a] And the Lord appointed[b] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah's Prayer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

    and he answered me;

out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

    and you heard my voice.

3 For you cast me into the deep,

    into the heart of the seas,

    and the flood surrounded me;

all your breakers and your waves

    passed over me.

4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away

    from your sight;

yet I shall again look

    upon your holy temple.’

5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;

    the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 To the roots of the mountains I went down,

    to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.

Yet you brought up my life from the pit,

    O Lord my God.

7 When my life was fainting away,

    I remembered the Lord,

and my prayer came to you,

    into your holy temple.

8 Those who pay regard to vain idols

    forsake their hope of steadfast love.

9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving

    will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

    Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

Footnotes

1. Jonah 1:17  Ch 2:1 in Hebrew


2. Jonah 1:17  Or had appointed