You threw me into the depths,(A)
into the heart of the seas,(B)
and the current[a] overcame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.(C)
But I said: I have been banished(D)
from Your sight,(E)
yet I will look once more[b]
toward Your holy temple.(F)
The waters engulfed me up to the neck;[c](G)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:3 Lit river
  2. Jonah 2:4 LXX reads said: Indeed, will I look . . . ?
  3. Jonah 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

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