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Jonah 1

The Book of Jonah

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  Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,  

 

 


2

 

  In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.  

 

 


3

 

  For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.  

 

 


4

 

  And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?  

 

 


5

 

  The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.  

 

 


6

 

  I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.  

 

 


7

 

  When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.  

 

 


8

 

  The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.  

 

 


9

 

  But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.  

 

 


10

 

  And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.  

 

 


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