Jonah 2:4-6

New International Reader's Version

⁴ I said, ‘I have been driven away from you.
    But I will look again
    toward your holy temple in Jerusalem.’
⁵ I had almost drowned in the waves.
    The deep waters were all around me.
    Seaweed was wrapped around my head.
⁶ I sank down to the bottom of the mountains.
    I thought I had died
    and gone down into the grave forever.
But you are the Lord my God.
You brought my life up
    from the very edge of the pit of death.