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Flood waters encompassed me,
    the deep surrounded me
        while seaweed wrapped around my head.
I sank to the roots of the mountains;
    the earth’s prison[a] bars closed[b] around me forever.
        Yet you resurrect the dead[c] from the Pit,[d] Lord my God!

“As my life was fading away,
    I remembered the Lord;
        and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:6 The Heb. lacks prison
  2. Jonah 2:6 The Heb. lacks closed
  3. Jonah 2:6 Lit. you bring life up
  4. Jonah 2:6 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife