Jonah 2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jonah 2A Psalm of Thanksgiving

1Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,

2saying,

“I called 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 shall I look again

upon your holy temple?’

5 Ps 69.1; Lam 3.54 The waters closed in over me;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped around my head

6 Ps 16.10 at 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 Ps 18.6; 77.10, 11; 142.3 As my life was ebbing away,

I remembered the Lord,

and my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple.

8 2 Kings 17.15; Ps 31.6; Jer 10.8; 16.19 Those who worship vain idols

forsake their true loyalty.

9 Job 22.27; Ps 3.8; 50.14; Hos 14.2; Heb 13.15 But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”

10Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.