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And you threw me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the sea currents surrounded me;
all your breakers and your surging waves
    passed over me.
And I said, ‘I am banished[a]
    from your sight;
how[b] will I continue to look[c]
    on your holy temple?’[d]
The waters encompassed me up to my neck;
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:4 Or “expelled,” or “driven away”
  2. Jonah 2:4 Or “however, I will continue to look on your holy temple”
  3. Jonah 2:4 Literally “will I do again to look,” meaning “will I continue to look”
  4. Jonah 2:4 Literally “on the temple of your holiness”