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Jonah's prayer

From inside the fish's stomach, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

He said,

    ‘When I was in trouble, I called out to the Lord,
        and he answered my prayer.
    Yes, I called out to you for help from the deep hole of death,
        and you heard my prayer.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 The stomach of the great fish seemed as if it was Jonah's grave. He calls it the deep hole of death, the place where people go when they die.