But I said: I have been banished(A)
from Your sight,(B)
yet I will look once more[a]
toward Your holy temple.(C)
The waters engulfed me up to the neck;[b](D)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(E)
I sank to the foundations of the mountains;(F)
the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!(G)
But You raised my life(H) from the Pit, Lord my God!(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:4 LXX reads said: Indeed, will I look . . . ?
  2. Jonah 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

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