Jonah 2:3-5

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³“You threw me into the sea.
    Your powerful waves splashed over me.
I went down, down into the deep sea.
    The water was all around me.
⁴Then I thought, ‘Now I must go where you cannot see me,’
    but I continued looking to your holy Temple for help.

⁵“The seawater closed over me.
    The water covered my mouth,
    and I could not breathe.^[a]
I went down, down into the deep sea.
    Seaweed wrapped around my head.

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Footnotes

Jonah 2:5 mouth, and I could not breathe Or “The water surrounded me to my soul.” The Hebrew word for soul also means “life,” “self,” or “appetite,” and “throat” or “mouth.”