Jonah 2

Jonah's Canticle in the Fish

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Overview

Swallowed and plunged into the cosmic deep, Jonah cries out to God from a place likened to Sheol itself, offering a canticle of remembrance, repudiation of idols, and vowed thanksgiving before his rescue — after which God commands the fish and Jonah is cast back onto dry land.

Passages

1–2Jonah's Prayer Begins in the Deep 3–6Descent into the Abyss — God's Judgment and the Depths of Death 7–9From the Depths, a Vow: Remembrance, Repentance, and Thanksgiving 10From the Belly of the Deep: Deliverance and New Beginning

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Jonah 2

¹Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. ²He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

³For 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.

⁴I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

⁵The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶I 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.

⁷“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

⁹But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

¹⁰Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

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