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Flood waters encompassed me,
    the deep surrounded me
        while seaweed wrapped around my head.
I sank to the roots of the mountains;
    the earth’s prison[a] bars closed[b] around me forever.
        Yet you resurrect the dead[c] from the Pit,[d] Lord my God!

“As my life was fading away,
    I remembered the Lord;
        and my prayer came to you in your holy Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:6 The Heb. lacks prison
  2. Jonah 2:6 The Heb. lacks closed
  3. Jonah 2:6 Lit. you bring life up
  4. Jonah 2:6 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife

The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.(A)
To the roots of the mountains(B) I sank down;
    the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
    brought my life up from the pit.(C)

“When my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered(D) you, Lord,
and my prayer(E) rose to you,
    to your holy temple.(F)

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Footnotes

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