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Then I said, “I am banished from your sight!
    How will I again look upon your holy temple?”(A)
The waters surged around me up to my neck;
    the deep enveloped me;
    seaweed wrapped around my head.(B)
I went down to the roots of the mountains;
    to the land whose bars closed behind me forever,
But you brought my life up from the pit,
    O Lord, my God.(C)

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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