Then I said, I am [a]cast away out of thy sight: yet will I look again toward thine holy Temple.

The waters compassed me about unto the soul: the depth closed me round about, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head.

I went down to the bottom of the mountains: the earth with her bars was about me forever, yet hast thou brought up my [b]life from the pit, O Lord my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:4 This declared what his prayer was, and how he labored between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God’s judgments for the same: but yet in the end faith got the victory.
  2. Jonah 2:6 Thou hast delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.

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