(A)For you cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
(B)all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.
(C)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
(D)yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’
(E)The waters closed in over me (F)to take my life;
    the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head

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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