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    You threw me into the deep water,
        and I fell into the middle of the sea.
    The deep water covered me.
        You sent big waves to roll over me.
    I said to myself,
        “You have sent me far away from you.
        Now I will never see your holy temple again.”[a]
    The deep water of the sea covered me,
        so that my life was in danger.
    The plants in the sea were all around my head.

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  1. 2:4 Or possibly: ‘But I know that I will see your holy temple again.’

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