Jonah 2:6-8

New Catholic Bible

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.
⁸ As my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer reached you
    in your holy temple.