When you threw me into the depths,(A)
into the heart of the seas,(B)
the current[a] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(C)
And I said, “I have been banished(D)
from your sight,(E)
yet I will look[b] once more
toward your holy temple.”(F)
The water engulfed me up to the neck;[c](G)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 Lit river
  2. 2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?
  3. 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

You hurled me into the depths,(A)
    into the very heart of the seas,
    and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves(B) and breakers
    swept over me.(C)
I said, ‘I have been banished
    from your sight;(D)
yet I will look again
    toward your holy temple.’(E)
The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:5 Or waters were at my throat