Jonah 1:17-2:10 (New King James Version)

Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance

   
¹⁷ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2

 ¹ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. ² And he said:


      “ I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction,
      And He answered me.


      “ Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
      And You heard my voice.
       ³ For You cast me into the deep,
      Into the heart of the seas,
      And the floods surrounded me;
      All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
       ⁴ Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
      Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
       ⁵ The waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
      The deep closed around me;
      Weeds were wrapped around my head.
       ⁶ I went down to the moorings of the mountains;
      The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
      Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,
      O LORD, my God.
       ⁷ “ When my soul fainted within me,
      I remembered the LORD;
      And my prayer went up to You,
      Into Your holy temple.
       ⁸ “ Those who regard worthless idols
      Forsake their own Mercy.
       ⁹ But I will sacrifice to You
      With the voice of thanksgiving;
      I will pay what I have vowed.
      Salvation is of the LORD.”

¹⁰ So the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.