Jonah 2:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ The water came over me and choked me;
    the sea covered me completely,
    and seaweed wrapped around my head.
⁶ I went down to the very roots of the mountains,
    into the land whose gates lock shut forever.^[a]
But you, O Lord my God,
    brought me back from the depths alive.
⁷ When I felt my life slipping away,
    then, O Lord, I prayed to you,
    and in your holy Temple you heard me.