Jonah 2:4-6

Expanded Bible

⁴ I said, ‘I was ·driven out of your presence [banished from your sight],
    ·but I hope to see [yet I will look toward] your Holy Temple again.’
⁵ The waters of the sea closed around my ·throat [or soul].
    The deep sea ·was all around [surrounded; closed in on] me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.
⁶ When I ·went [sank] down to ·where the mountains of the sea start to rise [^Lthe roots of the mountains],
    ·I thought I was locked in this prison [the earth’s bars held me] forever,
but you ·saved me [^Lbrought up my life] from the pit of death,
    Lord my God.