Jonah 2:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ Then I thought, “I have been banished from your sight.
    Will I ever be allowed again
    to look upon your holy temple?”
⁶ The waters around me rose to my neck,
    and the deep was closing around me;
    seaweed was twined around my head.
⁷ Down I plunged to the roots of the mountains,
    sinking to the netherworld
    whose bars would imprison me forever.
But you brought me up alive from the pit,
    O Lord, my God.