The Book of Jonah

Chapters:

1 2 3 4

verse #1

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

verse #2

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

verse #3

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

verse #4

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

verse #5

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

verse #6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.

verse #7

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

verse #8

Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

verse #9

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

verse #10

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

Chapters:

1 2 3 4